Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
SOCRATESThou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
More Socrates Quotes
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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He 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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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 really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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