Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATESBy far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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