As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SOCRATESThe misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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