I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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