Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESWonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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