Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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 only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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