The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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