If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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.
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