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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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.
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It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
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Contentment is natural wealth.
