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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

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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Fools Kindness People Philosophy Wise
I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Comfortable Enjoyment Life Peace
Be as you wish to seem.
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Attitude Be Yourself One Liner Self Love
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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Bad Character Express Fault Harm Language Oneself Soul
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Knowledge Philosophy Teaching Thinking
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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Forever Greedy Human Nature Suffering
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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Fight Justice Man Private Public Survive Time
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Divine Immortal Men Peace Soul
Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Deep Healing Love Need One Liner
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Life Ourself Realize Understand Wisdom World
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Debate Failure Loser Lost Slander
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Knowledge Wealth
It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Persist
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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Avoid Death Difficult Ignorance Run Wicked
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Break Care Leaving Loyal People Walk

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

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