The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
SOCRATESWhen the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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