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

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

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

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

“Know thyself.”
― Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
― Socrates

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

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

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

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

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Socrates

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

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

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

“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
― Socrates

“Be as you wish to seem.”
― Socrates

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

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

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
― Socrates

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