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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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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Bad Funny Goodness Happiness Marriage Philosophy Wife
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Capacity Development-q Enjoyment Finding Happiness Secret Seek
The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Advantage Attitude Be Yourself Myself Self Love
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Confidence Man Marriage Sex Virgin
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Evil Greatness Hate Reason Suffering
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 true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Forever Greedy Human Nature Suffering
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Education Flame Kindness Learning Vessel
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
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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Fight Justice Man Private Public Survive Time
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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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