The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
More Socrates Quotes
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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