He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESMankind 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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Are 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?
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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