Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SOCRATESContentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
More Socrates Quotes
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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To be is to do.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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