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Socrates



  • 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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