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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder
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    Socrates
    “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: gossip
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    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
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    Socrates
    “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed
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    Socrates
    “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
    ― Socrates
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    “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
    ― Anonymous
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    Socrates
    “Know thyself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspirational
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  • #10
    Socrates
    “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    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
    tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom
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    Socrates
    “Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: character, rectitude
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  • #15
    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
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    Socrates
    “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “understanding a question is half an answer”
    ― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates
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    Socrates
    “Envy is the ulcer of the soul.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “The hottest love has the coldest end.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “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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    Socrates
    “The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”
    ― Socrates
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  • #24
    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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  • #25
    Plato
    “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy
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    Plato
    “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
    ― Plato
    tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy
    2636 likes

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    Plato
    “good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
    ― Plato
    tags: laws, people
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    Plato
    “I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”
    ― Plato
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  • #29
    Plato
    “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
    ― Plato
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  • #30
    Plato
    “There is truth in wine and children”
    ― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus
    tags: aphorism
    727 likes



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