In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
SOCRATESHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
More Socrates Quotes
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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 goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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