True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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