Socrates
Ancient Greece
-470 // -399
Philosopher
-470 // -399
Philosopher
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty
Call no man unhappy until he is married
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in continue firm and constant
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all
An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine
A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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