Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATESMankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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