I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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More Socrates Quotes
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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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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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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 unexamined life is not worth living.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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