He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESIntelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
SOCRATESMy plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESThe 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.
SOCRATESThe great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESThere is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
SOCRATESThe unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATESStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SOCRATESWealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESAn unconsidered life is not one worth living.
SOCRATESNo 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.
SOCRATESLife contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
SOCRATESThe beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
SOCRATESGive me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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