He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
More Socrates Quotes
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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To be is to do.
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The 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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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