Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
SOCRATESSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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