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  • #1
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #2
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    Socrates

  • #3
    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    Socrates

  • #4
    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    Socrates

  • #5
    Socrates
    “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
    Socrates

  • #6
    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    Socrates

  • #7
    Socrates
    “To find yourself, think for yourself.”
    Socrates

  • #8
    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    Socrates

  • #9
    Socrates
    “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
    Socrates

  • #10
    Socrates
    “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
    Socrates

  • #11
    Socrates
    “Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”
    Socrates

  • #12
    Socrates
    “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

  • #13
    Socrates
    “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
    Socrates

  • #14
    Socrates
    “No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
    Socrates

  • #15
    Socrates
    “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
    Socrates

  • #16
    Socrates
    “Know thyself.”
    Socrates

  • #17
    Socrates
    “Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
    Socrates

  • #18
    Socrates
    “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
    Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

  • #19
    Socrates
    “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
    Socrates

  • #20
    Socrates
    “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
    Socrates

  • #21
    Socrates
    “Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”
    Socrates

  • #22
    Socrates
    “I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

    [As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]”
    Socrates

  • #23
    Socrates
    “Every action has its pleasures and its price.”
    Socrates

  • #24
    Socrates
    “Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
    Socrates

  • #25
    Socrates
    “We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
    Socrates

  • #26
    Elle Jasper
    “Good thing no one but the dead would see my hiniesca (high-nee-sca is a juvenile, made-up word for ass, and I use it frequently)”
    Elle Jasper, Afterlight



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