True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SOCRATESRemember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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 answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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