Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
SOCRATESI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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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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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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