In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
SOCRATESBy all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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To be is to do.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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