Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SOCRATESOne should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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