Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESThe beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
More Socrates Quotes
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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