Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
More Socrates Quotes
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The misuse of language induces evil in 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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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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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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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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