Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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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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