He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESTo find yourself, think for yourself.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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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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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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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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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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