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«If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | About: Pride, Wealth | Keywords: employs, praised, proud of, rich man
«I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | About: Wrestling
«Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.»
«Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed; and such as thine affections, will be thy deeds; and such as thy deeds will be thy life»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | About: Life | Keywords: affections, esteemed
«Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | About: Life | Keywords: chiefly, Good Life, valued
«Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.»
«Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.»
«I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.»
«It is necessary that one who really and truly fights for the right, if he is to survive even for a short time, shall act as a private man, not as a public man»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | Keywords: act as, fights, private, survive
«Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | Keywords: unrepentant

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