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

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

“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

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

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”
― Socrates

“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
― 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

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

“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.”
― Socrates

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

“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”
― 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

“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

“My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates”
― Socrates

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

“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”
― Jeremy Binns

“Esteemed friend, citizen of Athens, the greatest city in the world, so outstanding in both intelligence and power, aren't you ashamed to care so much to make all the money you can, and to advance your reputation and prestige--while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your soul you have no care or worry?”
― Socrates

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

“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
― Socrates

“The mind is everything; what you think you become”
― Socrates, The Psychology of Fate & of Free Will

“Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny”
― Socrates

“May the inward and outward man be as one.”
― Socrates