Wisdom begins in wonder.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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