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?
SOCRATESThe children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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