The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
SOCRATESWe cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
More Socrates Quotes
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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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