To find yourself, think for yourself.
SOCRATESI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
More Socrates Quotes
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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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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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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