I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
More Socrates Quotes
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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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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