The unexamined life is not worth living
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth
eat and drink only to live
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou are in,
continue firm and constant
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
He is the richest who is content with the least, for content
is the wealth of nature
I cannot teach anybody. I can only make them think
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events,
weak minds discuss people
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a
vessel
He who is not contented with the good he has would not be
contented with what he would like to have
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what
you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still
suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament.
It wants to be free of change, free of pain, free of the obligations of life
and death. But change is an unalterable law and no amount of pretending will
alter the reality
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking
more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty
When debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser
Employ your time in improving yourself by others men’s writings
so that you shall come easily by what others have laboured so hard for
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on
fighting the old, but on building the new
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world
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