To move the world we must move ourselves.
SOCRATESContentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
More Socrates Quotes
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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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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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 find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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