Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATESHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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