The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
SOCRATESThere is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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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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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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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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