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Socrates Quote - Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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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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Authority Bad Children Contempt Disrespect Exercise Love Luxury Manner Place
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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Beautiful Divine Doubt God Human Indicate Man Poem Poet Work
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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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Advantage Attitude Be Yourself Myself Self Love
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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Alone Beast God Healing Himself Self Love Society Sufficient
There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Confidence Inspirational One Liner Problem Seek Solution Trouble
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Crush Improvement Wisdom Yourself
I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Comfortable Enjoyment Life Peace
I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Believe Excellence Human Intelligence Oneself
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Capacity Development-q Enjoyment Finding Happiness Secret Seek
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Education Flame Kindness Learning Vessel
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Death Excellence Goodness Individual Men Wealth
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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Forever Greedy Human Nature Suffering
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Artificial Contentment Deep Luxury Natural Poverty Wealth
Be as you wish to seem.
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Attitude Be Yourself One Liner Self Love
It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Avoid Death Difficult Ignorance Run Wicked

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