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.
SOCRATESThere is no solution; seek it lovingly.
More Socrates Quotes
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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