Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
SOCRATESIntelligent 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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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