Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESWisdom begins in wonder.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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