The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
SOCRATESI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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