Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
SOCRATESThe 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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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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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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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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