The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
SOCRATESAre you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
More Socrates Quotes
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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