Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
SOCRATESThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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