Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
SOCRATESHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
More Socrates Quotes
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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To be is to do.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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