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.
SOCRATESHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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