“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
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“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
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“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
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“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
Socrates
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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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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
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“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”
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“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.”
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“Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.”
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“He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.”
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“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
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“The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.”
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“What a lot of things there are a man can do without.”
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“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
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“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
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“A multitude of books distracts the mind.”
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“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
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“Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.”
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“Know thyself.”
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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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