Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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?
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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