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405 BC·Athens

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

I would prefer inarticulate wisdom to loquacious foolishness.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

It would be better for me that the whole world should disagree with me than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

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

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Athens