The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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If 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.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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