Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
SOCRATESTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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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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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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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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