There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
SOCRATESNow 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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