Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
More Socrates Quotes
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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