True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SOCRATESHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
More Socrates Quotes
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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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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