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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The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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Mary obtains salvation for all who have recourse to her. Oh! If all sinners had recourse to Mary, who would ever be lost? ... He who is protected by her will be saved; he who is not will be lost.
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Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.
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Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
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Contentment is natural wealth.
