The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
SOCRATESWonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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