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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates
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The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. Socrates
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think Socrates
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. Socrates

tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder 769 people liked it

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To find yourself, think for yourself. Socrates

tags: independence, self-reliance 617 people liked it

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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Socrates

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, youll become happy; if you get a bad one, youll become a philosopher. Socrates
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant. Socrates
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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. 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. Socrates
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates

tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship 361 people liked it

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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. Socrates
tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed 350 people liked it

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. Socrates
tags: knowledge-ignorance 314 people liked it

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Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers. Socrates
tags: humor, teachers, teens 302 people liked it

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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. Socrates
tags: gossip 298 people liked it

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Know thyself. Socrates

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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. Socrates

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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. Socrates
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Let him who would move the world first move himself. Socrates
tags: change, self-determination, self-development 214 people liked it

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Every action has its pleasures and its price. Socrates

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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates
tags: character, excellence, reputation, striving 205 people liked it

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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. Socrates

tags: golden-rule 193 people liked it

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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates (Barnes & Noble Collector's Library)
tags: contentment, philosophy 189 people liked it

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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. Socrates
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. Socrates
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I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. Socrates

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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual Socrates
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better. Socrates

tags: character, rectitude

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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. Socrates
tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom 131 people liked it

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Envy is the ulcer of the soul. Socrates