He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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