The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SOCRATESI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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