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Simplicity Quotes by Socrates

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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

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Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these…

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How many things are there which I do not want.

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

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

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Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

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If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

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“I only know, I know nothing”

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

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If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are…

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Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

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“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no…

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There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and…

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Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of…

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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

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