Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
SOCRATESThe hottest love has the coldest end.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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