Socrates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
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When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
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I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
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Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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I don't know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff.
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I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out a chapter.
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Contentment is natural wealth.
