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


I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. – Anne Frank.


If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. – Socrates.


Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will always obtain, but the lazy man never. - Benjamin Franklin.


Nothing was useful which was not honest. - Benjamin Franklin.


The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. – Aristotle.


They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. – Socrates.


With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. – Aristotle.


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