Every action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESThere is no solution; seek it lovingly.
More Socrates Quotes
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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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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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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