Wisdom begins in wonder.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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