Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESMy plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
More Socrates Quotes
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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To be is to do.
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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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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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