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.
SOCRATESThou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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 true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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To be is to do.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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