True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life ourselves and the world around us.

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The body is a source of endless trouble to us by reason of the mere requirement of food. - Socrates Quote

The body is a source of endless trouble to us by reason of the mere requirement of food.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice. - Socrates Quote

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Marry or not? Whichever you do, you will repent it. - Socrates Quote

Marry or not? Whichever you do, you will repent it.

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. - Socrates Quote

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

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    I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty. - Socrates Quote

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    Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

    Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

    We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

    We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

    The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

    The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven, if you still know everything, you're still seventeen.

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