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.
SOCRATESSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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