Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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