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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-Socrates
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
-Socrates
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You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.
-Socrates
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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.
-Socrates
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
-Socrates
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Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!"
-Socrates
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
-Socrates
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
-Socrates
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
-Socrates
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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
-Socrates
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
-Socrates
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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
-Socrates
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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.
-Socrates
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He is richest who is content with the least.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
-Socrates
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My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
-Socrates
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own.
-Socrates
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
-Socrates
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By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.
-Socrates
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
-Socrates
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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
-Socrates
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
-Socrates
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
-Socrates
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