True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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To be is to do.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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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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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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