I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
SOCRATESHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
More Socrates Quotes
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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To be is to do.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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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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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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