He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
More Socrates Quotes
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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