He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESOnce made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
More Socrates Quotes
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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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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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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