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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.

Socrates

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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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Deep Eat Funny Live One Liner
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Evil Include Language Misuse One Liner Soul
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Dead Deep Desire Hate Inspirational One Liner
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Enjoyment Life Live Principle
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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Blessing Goodness Individual State Wealth
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Death Excellence Goodness Individual Men Wealth
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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Ashamed Care Fame Improvement Money Prestige Soul Truth Wisdom
Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Fools Kindness People Philosophy Wise
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Except FAction Ignorance Learning One Liner
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Break Care Leaving Loyal People Walk
To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Finding Freedom Healing Self Love Yourself
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Evil Greatness Hate Reason Suffering
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Account Evil Himself Injured Injustice Journey Man Return Suffering
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

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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