Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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To be is to do.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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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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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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