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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
    15485 likes

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    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
    7271 likes

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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
    3959 likes

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    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
    3100 likes

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    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy
    2191 likes

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    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder
    2017 likes

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  • #7
    Socrates
    “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: gossip
    2062 likes

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  • #8
    Socrates
    “To find yourself, think for yourself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: independence, self-reliance
    1719 likes

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  • #9
    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship
    1594 likes

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  • #10
    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
    tags: marriage
    1345 likes

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    “The music is not in the notes,
    but in the silence between.”
    ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    tags: music
    886 likes

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
    ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    tags: genius, love
    398 likes

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    “I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
    ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    tags: criticism, mozart, reviews
    366 likes

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    “When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.”
    ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    tags: creativity, ideas, music
    233 likes

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    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
    tags: music, philosophy, revelation, wisdom
    2573 likes

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    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
    tags: inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
    727 likes

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    Johann Sebastian Bach
    “Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
    ― Johann Sebastian Bach
    tags: christian, inspirational, music, power-of-music
    375 likes

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    Johann Sebastian Bach
    “I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”
    ― Johann Sebastian Bach
    123 likes

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    Johann Sebastian Bach
    “The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.”
    ― J.S. Bach
    88 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength
    5955 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars
    5312 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
    4219 likes

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  • #23
    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)”
    ― Julius Caesar
    tags: conqueror, imperialism, rome, war
    693 likes

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  • #24
    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “Experience is the teacher of all things.”
    ― Julius Caesar
    148 likes

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  • #25
    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “Without training, they lacked knowledge.
    Without knowledge, they lacked confidence.
    Without confidence, they lacked victory.”
    ― Julius Caesar
    115 likes

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  • #26
    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish”
    ― Julius Caesar
    90 likes

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  • #27
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ
    6227 likes

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  • #28
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114352 likes

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  • #29
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
    77721 likes

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  • #30
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
    13706 likes



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