Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
SOCRATESWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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To be is to do.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong 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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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