Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
SOCRATESContentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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