I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SOCRATESAre 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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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To be is to do.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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