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Socrates Quote - The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATES

Beginning One Liner Wisdom Wonder
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
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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Avoid Death Difficult Ignorance Run Wicked
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Death Excellence Goodness Individual Men Wealth
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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Bad Character Express Fault Harm Language Oneself Soul
To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Finding Freedom Healing Self Love Yourself
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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Conception Emotional Illusion Moral Relative Sound System True Value Vulgar
The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honor Myself Pretend World
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Authority Bad Children Contempt Disrespect Exercise Love Luxury Manner Place
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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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Dead Deep Desire Hate Inspirational One Liner
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Knowledge Philosophy Teaching Thinking
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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Ashamed Care Fame Improvement Money Prestige Soul Truth Wisdom
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Beware Busy Life One Liner
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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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Break Up Cold Deep Ending Hot Love One Liner
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Education Flame Kindness Learning Vessel
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Divine Immortal Men Peace Soul
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Evil Good Ignorance Knowledge
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Adversity Depression Human Prosperity Remember Stable
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Truth Wisdom Worth
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Crush Improvement Wisdom Yourself
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Debate Failure Loser Lost Slander
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Except FAction Ignorance Learning One Liner
I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Believe Excellence Human Intelligence Oneself
It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Beauty Body Careless Develop Disgrace Fitness Inspirational Limit Manner Strength
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Afraid Children Darkness Depression Forgiveness Life Men Traged

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