The hottest love has the coldest end.
SOCRATESTrue 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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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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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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The great honor in the 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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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