When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESAll men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
More Socrates Quotes
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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To be is to do.
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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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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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