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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

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

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― 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

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

“Every action has its pleasures and its price.”
― Socrates

“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

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

“Envy is the ulcer of the soul.”
― Socrates

“understanding a question is half an answer”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
― Socrates

“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”
― Socrates

“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”
― Socrates

“Be as you wish to seem.”
― Socrates

“If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”
― Socrates

“In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.”
― Socrates

“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.”
― Socrates

“If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.”
― Socrates

“Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”
― Socrates

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
― Socrates

“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”
― Socrates

“To be is to do”
― Socrates

“To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.”
― Socrates

“I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.”
― Socrates

“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
― Socrates