Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SOCRATESBe as you wish to seem.
More Socrates Quotes
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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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