When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESWealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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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 as you wish to seem.
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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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