The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.
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.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Be as you wish to seem.
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall gain easily what others have laboured hard for.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
To be is to do.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
He who is not a good servant, will not be a good master.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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.
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Know thyself.
The mind is everything; what you think, you become.
The hardest battle you’ll ever fight is against yourself.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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