Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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