Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
More Socrates Quotes
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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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 know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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To be is to do.
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