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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.

- Socrates | Politics Quotes

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

- Socrates | Happiness Quotes

How many things there are which I do not want.

- Socrates | Forgiveness Quotes

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

- Socrates | Forgiveness Quotes

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

- Socrates | Friendship Quotes

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

- Socrates | Prayer Quotes

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

- Socrates | The Past Quotes

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

- Socrates | Right Quotes

What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.

- Socrates | Goals Quotes

To do is to be.

- Socrates | Getting Going Quotes

If a man would move the world, he must first move himself.

- Socrates | Women's Movement Quotes

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

- Socrates | Problems Quotes

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

- Socrates | Applause Quotes

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world.

- Socrates | Citizen Quotes

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

- Socrates | Fame Quotes

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in continue firm and constant.

- Socrates | Friendship Quotes

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades—that of government.

- Socrates | Government Quotes

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

- Socrates | Humanity Quotes

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

- Socrates | Idleness Quotes

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

- Socrates | Judge Quotes

Know thyself.

- Socrates | Knowledge Quotes

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

- Socrates | Knowledge Quotes

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

- Socrates | Prayer Quotes

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.

- Socrates | Simplicity Quotes

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

- Socrates | Swans Quotes

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

- Socrates | Wise Quotes