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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

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By all means marry if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

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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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But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny

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

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Be as you wish to seem.

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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live

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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

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And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

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I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.

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Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

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

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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

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