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.
SOCRATESWonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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