Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
SOCRATESWealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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