Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESEverything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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