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.
SOCRATESWealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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To be is to do.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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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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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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