He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESThe greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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