True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
More Socrates Quotes
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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To be is to do.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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