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?
SOCRATESHe who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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