The unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATESPrefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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