Wisdom begins in wonder.
SOCRATESIt is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
More Socrates Quotes
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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 great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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