We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATESOnce made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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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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