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Socrates Quotes

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing""He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have""Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for""He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature""Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live""From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate""Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down""Be as you wish to seem""Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change""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""Death may be the greatest of all human blessings""The hottest love has the coldest end""Envy is the ulcer of the soul""When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser""He who is not a good servant will not be a good master""I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing""There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance""Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual""The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be""True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us"