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Socrates Quote - Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

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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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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Knowledge Philosophy Teaching Thinking
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Deep Eat Funny Live One Liner
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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Hate Hatred Proof Simplicity Speak Speech Truth
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Goodness Inspirational Life One Liner Value
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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Comfortable Enjoyment Life Peace
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Evil Include Language Misuse One Liner Soul
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Angry Character Disappointment Hurt Respect
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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Fools Kindness People Philosophy Wise
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Break Care Leaving Loyal People Walk
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Character Improvement One Liner Seek
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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Beautiful Divine Doubt God Human Indicate Man Poem Poet Work
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Envy One Liner Soul
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Except FAction Ignorance Learning One Liner
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Intelligence Knowledge Wisdom
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Afraid Children Darkness Depression Forgiveness Life Men Traged
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Beware Busy Life One Liner
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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Blessing Goodness Individual State Wealth
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Contentment Greedy Satisfaction
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Alone Beast God Healing Himself Self Love Society Sufficient
An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Consider Inspirational Life Live One Liner Worth
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Arrive Death Departure Die God Life Separate
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Dead Deep Desire Hate Inspirational One Liner
To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Bad Character Express Fault Harm Language Oneself Soul
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Debate Failure Loser Lost Slander
The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Advantage Attitude Be Yourself Myself Self Love
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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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man

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