Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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 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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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Now 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.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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