Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
SOCRATESIt is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
More Socrates Quotes
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To be is to do.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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