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A multitude of books distracts the mind.
[ Books - Reading ]
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An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
[ Education ]
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An unexamined life is not worth living.
[ Life and Living ]
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
[ Beauty ]
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Call no man unhappy until he is married.
[ Happiness ]
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
[ Contentment ]
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Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
[ Famous Last Words ]
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
[ Death and Dying ]
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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.
[ Enjoyment ]
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
[ Dishonesty ]
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
[ Fame ]
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
[ Hatred ]
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
[ Control ]
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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
[ Happiness ]
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He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
[ Contentment ]
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
[ Riches ]
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How many are the things I can do without!
[ Possessions ]
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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
[ Humankind ]
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
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I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
[ Love ]
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
[ Riches ]
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
[ Life and Living ]
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Know thyself.
[ Self-knowledge ]
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Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
[ Influence ]
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
[ Desire ]
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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
[ Justice ]
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
[ Feminism ]
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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
[ Knowledge ]
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
[ Prayer ]
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
[ Nature ]
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Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
[ Slander ]
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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
[ Wisdom ]
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
[ Humor ]
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
[ Life and Living ]
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
[ Envy ]
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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
[ Desire ]
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
[ Love ]
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The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
[ Glory ]
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
[ Good and Evil ]
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
[ Growth ]
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
[ Reputation ]
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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.
[ Evil ]
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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
[ Purpose ]
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
[ Wealth ]
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Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
[ Food and Eating ]
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