The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
SOCRATESWisdom begins in wonder.
More Socrates Quotes
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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