I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
SOCRATESWonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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