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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become ...
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Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better G...
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct ...
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appe...
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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fir...
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a p...
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better...
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your pers...
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You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans....
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The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
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He is the richest who is content with the least
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To find yourself, think for yourself
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself suffici...
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My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to car...
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I only know that I know nothing
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll be...
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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I know I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was ex...
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My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a...
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An unexamined life is not worth living.
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If all the misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most...
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor t...
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The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will-he will be sure to repent it.
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their te...
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and ...
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Suddenly there were people who came to realize that there must be some things that must be done abou...
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How much there is in the world I do not want
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To do is to be.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a ph...
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I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man: neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhi...
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I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are ...
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My belief is that to have no wants is divine
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If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep...
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It is necessary that one who really and truly fights for the right, if he is to survive even for a s...
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Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what...
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you ne...
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