As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SOCRATESAs to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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