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 Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. | Socrates |
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. | Socrates |
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. | Socrates |
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul. | Socrates |
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. | Socrates |
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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. | Socrates |
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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. | Socrates |
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He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who
might be better employed. | Socrates |
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He is richest who is content, with the least, for content is
the wealth of nature. | Socrates |
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. | Socrates |
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. | Socrates |
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from vir | Socrates |
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. | Socrates |
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Know thyself. | Socrates |
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