Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
SOCRATESIf all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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