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Socrates Quote - True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Improvement Labor Men Writing Yourself
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning One Liner Wisdom Wonder
It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Crush Improvement Wisdom Yourself
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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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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Alone Beast God Healing Himself Self Love Society Sufficient
My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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