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.
SOCRATESTo be is to do.
More Socrates Quotes
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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