Socrates

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

"I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think."

- Socrates

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new"

- Socrates

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

- Socrates

"The secret to change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

""The hottest love has the coldest end.""

- Socrates

""The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.""

- Socrates

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

- Socrates

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

- Socrates

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing."

- Socrates

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love."

- Socrates

"Wisdom begins with wonder."

- Socrates

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

- Socrates

"Wisdom begins in wonder."

- Socrates

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

- Socrates

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new."

- Socrates

"Care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves."

- Socrates

"Be as you wish to seem."

- Socrates

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new."

- Socrates

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher."

- Socrates

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

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""The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.""

- Socrates

"I cannot teach anyone anything; I can only cause them to think."

- Socrates

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

- Socrates

"Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers."

- Socrates

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

- Socrates

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

- Socrates

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new"

- Socrates

"Happiness is already there. It is within us. We have just forgotten it and need to remember it again."

- Socrates

"There is nothing we can do better than seeking to become still better than we are."

- Socrates

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

- Socrates

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

- Socrates

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

- Socrates

"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

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"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

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"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."

- Socrates

"Wisdom begins in wonder"

- Socrates

"I can’t teach anyone anything; all I can do is make them think."

- Socrates

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."

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"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

"The poets are only the interpreters of the gods."

- Socrates

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."

- Socrates

"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

- Socrates

"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."

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"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."

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"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

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"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."

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"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."

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"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."

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"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."

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"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

- Socrates

"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."

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"No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods."

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"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

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"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."

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"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."

- Socrates

"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."

- Socrates

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

- Socrates

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."

- 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

"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."

- Socrates

"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."

- Socrates

"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."

- Socrates

"An honest man is always a child."

- Socrates

"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

- Socrates

"Let him that would move the world first move himself."

- Socrates

"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us."

- Socrates

"The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves."

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"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."

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"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

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"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

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"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."

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"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."

- Socrates

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think."

- Socrates

"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms."

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

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"In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent."

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"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

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"Nothing is to be preferred before justice."

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"I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

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"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

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"The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor."

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"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all."

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

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"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults."

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"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."

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"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual."

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"Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are."

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"Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle."

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"It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one."

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"To move the world, we must first move ourselves."

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"Smart people learn from everything and everyone. Average people from their experiences. Stupid people already have all the answers."

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"The mind is everything; what you think you become."

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"The value of a man is measured in the number of those who stand beside him, not those who follow."

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"Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly."

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"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous."

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"We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us."

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"I call myself a peaceful warrior because the battles we fight are on the inside."

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"What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our heads of what it’s supposed to be."

- Socrates

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is ‘love.’"

- Socrates

"It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."

- Socrates

"Moderate exercise is indispensable; exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue."

- Socrates

""The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.""

- Socrates

"Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods."

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"Understanding a question is half an answer."

- Socrates

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

- Socrates

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"

- Socrates

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."

- Socrates

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

- 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

"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant."

- 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."

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

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"Know thyself."

- Socrates

"Let him who would move the world first move himself."

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"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

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"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."

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"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."

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"Every action has its pleasures and its price."

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

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"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better."

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""The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.""

- Socrates