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- The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
- If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own…
- I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.
- You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or…
- 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…
- An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
- 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…
- I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
- The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human…
- Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
- I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other…
- Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
- The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is…
- See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
- Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must…
- Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in…
- All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth;…
- The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint.…
- No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that…
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