The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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