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Socrates has 347 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Contentment is natural wealth.
• The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
• To find yourself, think for yourself.
• I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
• He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
• Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
• The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
• Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
• Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
• Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
• Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

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