Understanding a question is half an answer.
SOCRATESWealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
More Socrates Quotes
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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.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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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 hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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