Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
SOCRATESContentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
More Socrates Quotes
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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