True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SOCRATESI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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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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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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