The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
SOCRATESHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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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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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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