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Socrates Quote - The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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