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.
SOCRATESThe 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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To be is to do.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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