Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
SOCRATESI 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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