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?
SOCRATESThose who are hardest to love need it the most.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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To be is to do.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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 find yourself, think for yourself.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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 unexamined life is not worth living.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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