Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SOCRATESThe beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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 unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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