Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESIf 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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