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

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

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

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

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

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

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

“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
― Socrates

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
― Socrates

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

“Know thyself.”
― Socrates

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

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

“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
― Socrates

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

“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
― Socrates

“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”
― Socrates

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates (Barnes & Noble Collector's Library)

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

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Socrates

“I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
― Socrates

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

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

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