Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.
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The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him.
I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
The surest, as the shortest way, to make yourself beloved and honored, is to be, indeed, the very man you wish to appear.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Be as you wish to seem.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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.
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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