Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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