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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Marry Good Happy Become

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The unexamined life is not worth living.

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Life Living Worth Worth Living

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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

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Content He Least Nature

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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Know Knowing Nothing Only

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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

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Greatest Honor Live Pretend

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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

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Best Blessings General God

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Always Child Honest Honest Man

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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

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Easily Employ Gain Hard

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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

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Honest Live Man Politician

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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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Except Fact Ignorance Know

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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

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Employs He His How

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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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Blessings Death Greatest Human

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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

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Come Deadliest Deepest Desires

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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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Exists Know Knowing Knowledge

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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

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Drink Eat Live Only

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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

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Because Everywhere Extension Fear

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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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Chiefly Good Good Life Life

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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

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Based Conception Emotional Illusion

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Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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First Him Himself Move

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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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Becomes Equal His Made

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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

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Common Contented Depart Equal

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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

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Divine Immortal Men Righteous

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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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Celibacy Course He Man

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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

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Bait Beauty Delight His

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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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Decided Deliver Find Inspiration

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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

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Gods Only Poets Interpreters

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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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Bad Bad One Become Get

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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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Art Constant Continue Fall

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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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Appear Desire Endeavor Gain

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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

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End Following God Him

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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

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Against Away Courage Does

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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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About Around Each How

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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

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Accord Apply Death Directly

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

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A Good Man After Death Either

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"34 Socrates Quotes & Sayings

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.

Socrates

Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

Socrates

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Socrates

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Socrates

Socrates

Socrates

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Socrates

Socrates

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Socrates

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Socrates

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Socrates

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Socrates

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Socrates

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.

Socrates

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Socrates

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.

Socrates

Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

Socrates

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Socrates

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Socrates

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Socrates

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