Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
SOCRATESNobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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