Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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More Socrates Quotes
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To be is to do.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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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 know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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