From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATESSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
More Socrates Quotes
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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