"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."
Socrates Quotes
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All I know is that I know nothing.
"All I know is that I know nothing."
"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."
"I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man..."
"We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us? The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him."
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
"My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth."
"The hottest love has the coldest end."
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
"Understanding a question is half an answer."
"May the inward and outward man be as one."
"Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house."
"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
"One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him."
"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual"
"The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am."
"To move the world we must move ourselves."
"He who is not contended with what he has would not be contended with what he would like to have."
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"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."