As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SOCRATESNobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
More Socrates Quotes
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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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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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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