| As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. |
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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 philosopher. |
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| Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? |
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| The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. |
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| Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. |
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| I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. |
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| Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. |
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| The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. |
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| There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. |
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| Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. |
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| Envy is the ulcer of the soul. |
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| If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. |
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| The unexamined life is not worth living for man. |
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| How many things are there which I do not want. |
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| Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. |
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| I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. |
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| Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. |
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