Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
SOCRATESRemember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
More Socrates Quotes
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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