By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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