To be is to do.
SOCRATESPrefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
More Socrates Quotes
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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