The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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