The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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