The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SOCRATESPrefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
More Socrates Quotes
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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