Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESWisdom begins in wonder.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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