He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESThe greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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