The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
SOCRATESThe highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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