Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SOCRATESAn unconsidered life is not one worth living.
More Socrates Quotes
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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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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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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