Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESYour 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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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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