The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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