Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
SOCRATESPrefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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.
SOCRATESHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATESThou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
SOCRATESHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESGive me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
SOCRATESI don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
SOCRATESWe cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATESAs to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
SOCRATESStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SOCRATESThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATESDo not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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