When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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