Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATESWhen the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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