Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SOCRATESIntelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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