Socrates quotes

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

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

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

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The unexamined life is not worth living.

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

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

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

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

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

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

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

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.