My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESWe cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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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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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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 misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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