The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
SOCRATESMankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
More Socrates Quotes
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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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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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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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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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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