Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESBe slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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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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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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