100+ Socrates Quotes That Will Change Your Mind

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Capacity Development-q Enjoyment Finding Happiness Secret Seek
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Blessing Death Greatness Human One Liner
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honour Live Pretend
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Crush Improvement Wisdom Yourself
The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Break Up Cold Deep Ending Hot Love One Liner
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Truth Wisdom Worth
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
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Action Inspirational One Liner Patience Pleasure Price
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Contentment Greedy Satisfaction
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Debate Failure Loser Lost Slander
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
There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Confidence Inspirational One Liner Problem Seek Solution Trouble
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Attain Compassion Empire Impossible Kingdom Reach Understand
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
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
Wisdom begins in wonder.
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One Liner Wisdom Wonder
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Deep Eat Funny Live One Liner
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Evil Greatness Hate Reason Suffering
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Achievement Desire Dreamss Heart Life Tragedy
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
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Education Flame Kindness Learning Vessel
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Evil Include Language Misuse One Liner Soul
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Bad Funny Goodness Happiness Marriage Philosophy Wife
A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Fight Justice Man Private Public Survive Time
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Persist
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Bad Breathe Insight Wisdom

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