"Virtue does not come from wealth, but..." - Quote by Socrates

“A multitude of books distracts the mind.”

“Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.”

“Knowledge is our ultimate good.”

“Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.”

“If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.”

“Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.”

“May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.”

“Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.”

“Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.”