Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESThose who are hardest to love need it the most.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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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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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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