My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy: if not you'll become a philosopher.
An honest man is always a child.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Know thyself.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.
What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the worth around us.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Living Well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
Be as you wish to seem.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in constant.
Beauty is a short - lived tyranny.
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
How many things there are which I do not want.
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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