I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SOCRATESBe 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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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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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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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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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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