When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESOnce made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
More Socrates Quotes
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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 cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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 true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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