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.
SOCRATESWealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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To be is to do.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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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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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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