Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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