If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SOCRATESTo find yourself, think for yourself.
More Socrates Quotes
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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To be is to do.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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