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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.


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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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SOCRATES It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
SOCRATES Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
SOCRATES From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATES The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
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SOCRATES All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
SOCRATES False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
SOCRATES I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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SOCRATES In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
SOCRATES The hottest love has the coldest end.
SOCRATES I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
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SOCRATES The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no wi...
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SOCRATES No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficie...
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SOCRATES Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
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SOCRATES One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
SOCRATES I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
SOCRATES See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
SOCRATES If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
SOCRATES The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
SOCRATES Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge ...
SOCRATES What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
SOCRATES Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
SOCRATES Call no man unhappy until he is married.
SOCRATES Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth
SOCRATES Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the e...
SOCRATES A multitude of books distracts the mind.
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SOCRATES An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
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SOCRATES The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SOCRATES The unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATES Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
SOCRATES I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
SOCRATES The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect fo...
SOCRATES He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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SOCRATES My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you
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SOCRATES The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
SOCRATES Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see mo...
SOCRATES Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
SOCRATES He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATES Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATES Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
SOCRATES The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
SOCRATES Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
SOCRATES Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are...
SOCRATES There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.
SOCRATES The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATES The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
SOCRATES Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.
SOCRATES The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
SOCRATES Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
SOCRATES Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
SOCRATES I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my ot...
SOCRATES I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my...
SOCRATES Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
SOCRATES They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
SOCRATES How many are the things I can do without!
SOCRATES If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, mo...
SOCRATES One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injust...
SOCRATES Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, be...
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SOCRATES The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
SOCRATES When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal.
SOCRATES Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty
SOCRATES He is richest who is content with the least.
SOCRATES 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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SOCRATES What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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SOCRATES I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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SOCRATES Wisdom begins in wonder.
SOCRATES Be as you wish to seem.
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SOCRATES I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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SOCRATES An honest man is always a child.
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SOCRATES Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
SOCRATES Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
SOCRATES Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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SOCRATES A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vu...
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SOCRATES Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
SOCRATES Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their te...
SOCRATES As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
SOCRATES And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
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SOCRATES Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
SOCRATES The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better G...
SOCRATES I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct ...
SOCRATES I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
SOCRATES Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
SOCRATES There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
SOCRATES Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
SOCRATES Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
SOCRATES The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appe...
SOCRATES Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
SOCRATES Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fir...
SOCRATES If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
SOCRATES Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
SOCRATES Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
SOCRATES Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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SOCRATES I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your pers...
SOCRATES You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans....
SOCRATES The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
SOCRATES The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
SOCRATES He is the richest who is content with the least
SOCRATES To find yourself, think for yourself
SOCRATES Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATES The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.
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SOCRATES I only know that I know nothing
SOCRATES There is no solution; seek it lovingly
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SOCRATES The misuse of language induces evil in the soul
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SOCRATES The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was ex...
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SOCRATES An unexamined life is not worth living.
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SOCRATES How much there is in the world I do not want
SOCRATES To do is to be.
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SOCRATES My belief is that to have no wants is divine
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