Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
More Socrates Quotes
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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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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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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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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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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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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To 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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