Socrates Quotes About Wealth
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A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
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Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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.
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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
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May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.
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All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth
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Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
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He is the richest who is content with the least.
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
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Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?
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I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.
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Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
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wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state
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