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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.
-Socrates

What you cannot enforce, do not command.
-Socrates

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
-Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least.
-Socrates

A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-Socrates

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
-Socrates

To find yourself, think for yourself.
-Socrates

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
-Socrates

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
-Socrates

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
-Socrates

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
-Socrates

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
-Socrates

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!"
-Socrates

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
-Socrates

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
-Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
-Socrates

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
-Socrates

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
-Socrates

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