We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
SOCRATESThe beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
More Socrates Quotes
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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