The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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 nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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