Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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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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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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To be is to do.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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