Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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 become a philosopher.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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