Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESI do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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