Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESThou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
More Socrates Quotes
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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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.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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