He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
SOCRATESMankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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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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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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