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

Socrates

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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Improvement Inspirational Labor Men Time Writing Yourself
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Battle Fight Kindness Meet Philosophy Struggle
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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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
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
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Contentment Greedy Satisfaction
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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Hate Hatred Proof Simplicity Speak Speech Truth
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Envy One Liner Soul
The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Break Up Cold Deep Ending Hot Love One Liner
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Constant Fall Friendship
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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Death Fear Gentlemen Oneself Thinking Wise
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Beginning One Liner Positive Wisdom
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Beast Dreamss Goodness Law Men Nature Sleep Wild
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Cheer Death Evil Goodness Happen Man Truth
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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Ashamed Care Fame Improvement Money Prestige Soul Truth Wisdom
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Deep Eat Funny Live One Liner
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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Blessing Goodness Individual State Wealth
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Intelligence Knowledge Wisdom
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
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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Improvement Labor Men Writing Yourself
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Adversity Depression Human Prosperity Remember Stable
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Blessing Death Greatness Human One Liner
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Beware Busy Life One Liner
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Character Improvement One Liner Seek
To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Ourself
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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Admire Beautiful City Community Greatness Planning Wisdom
Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Honesty Necessary True Truth

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