The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
SOCRATESDo not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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 true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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 great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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