Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESThe greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
More Socrates Quotes
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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 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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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It 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.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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To be is to do.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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