Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESLet him who would move the world first move himself.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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