Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
SOCRATESStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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To be is to do.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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