Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
SOCRATESOnce made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
More Socrates Quotes
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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