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My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher

By Socrates

My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher.

By Socrates

My belief is that to have no wants is divine

By Socrates

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

By Socrates

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

By Socrates

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

By Socrates

Let him that would move the world first move himself

By Socrates

If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

By Socrates

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

By Socrates

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

By Socrates

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

By Socrates

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

By Socrates

I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know.

By Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

By Socrates

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

By Socrates

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

By Socrates

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology)

By Socrates

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

By Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least

By Socrates

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

By Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least.

By Socrates

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

By Socrates

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

By Socrates

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

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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.

By Socrates

Envy is the ulcer of the soul

By Socrates

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

By Socrates

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

By Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

By Socrates