By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
SOCRATESThe greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
More Socrates Quotes
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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