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Quote of Socrates - He is richest who is content...


Biography - Socrates:

*Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -469 - Died: -399
Period:
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.



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Quotes for: wealth


I am rich in the goods that I can do without.





Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.





The wise man is rich





Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.





To love is to find one's riches outside oneself.





If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.











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All I know is that I know nothing.





Beware the barrenness of a busy life.





The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.





Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.





Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.





Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.












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