An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
SOCRATESBe slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
More Socrates Quotes
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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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 children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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