Quotes by Socrates

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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing h >>

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods. >>

Quotations about Greed

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants ano >>

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; >>

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to >>

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.

Socrates