Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SOCRATESIt is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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