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.
SOCRATESI 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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Be 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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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