He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESGod 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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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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To be is to do.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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