Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SOCRATESThe children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
More Socrates Quotes
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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