Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
SOCRATESBy far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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