If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SOCRATESIf you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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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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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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