Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
SOCRATESTo fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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