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| As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent. | | Love and Hate | | |
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| Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. | | Life and Death | | |
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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. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. | | Uncategorized | | |
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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. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| 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. | | Uncategorized | | |
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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. | | Love and Hate | | |
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| Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. | | Vice and Virtue | | |
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| The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. | | Uncategorized | | |
