Let him who would move the world first move himself.
SOCRATESBy all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
More Socrates Quotes
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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