Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
SOCRATESContentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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