The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
SOCRATESEverything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
More Socrates Quotes
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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