No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
SOCRATESTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
More Socrates Quotes
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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