My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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To be is to do.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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