When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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