Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATESThe children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
More Socrates Quotes
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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 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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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