Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
SOCRATESGive me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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