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Socrates Quote - Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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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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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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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Mankind 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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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