Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SOCRATESHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
More Socrates Quotes
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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