Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESThou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
More Socrates Quotes
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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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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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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