Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
SOCRATES- 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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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.
More Socrates Quotes
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESContentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
SOCRATESTo fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SOCRATESTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
SOCRATESThe greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
SOCRATESLet him who would move the world first move himself.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESThe greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
SOCRATESThe hottest love has the coldest end.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
SOCRATESThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
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