Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
SOCRATESPrefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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To be is to do.
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