Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
SOCRATESTo find yourself, think for yourself.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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