"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 ... and that is a good thing for any man."
Socrates Quotes
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All I know is that I know nothing.
"Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ..."
"All I know is that I know nothing."
"Understanding a question is half an answer."
"All I know is that I know nothing."
"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?"
"Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat."
"The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be."
"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better."
"We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us? The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him."
"To be is to do."
"Every action has its pleasures and its price."
"Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle."
"And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows."
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers."
"How many things can I do without?"
"Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god."
"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."
"Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle."