• Virtues

  Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

  3.1 · 43 votes · 130 reads

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• Society

  By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

  4.8 · 17 votes · 68 reads

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• Feelings

  Call no man unhappy until he is married.

  3.0 · 8 votes · 93 reads

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• Feelings

  Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

  4.1 · 48 votes · 175 reads

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• Nature

  Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

  3.6 · 11 votes · 25 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

  4.3 · 17 votes · 181 reads

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• Feelings

  Enjoy yourself - it's later than you think.

  4.7 · 56 votes · 45 reads

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• Defects

  False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

  3.7 · 53 votes · 127 reads

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• Society

  Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

  3.3 · 33 votes · 63 reads

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• Feelings

  From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

  4.0 · 44 votes · 9 reads

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• Various

  Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.

  3.2 · 16 votes · 141 reads

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• Feelings

  Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

  3.9 · 50 votes · 141 reads

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• Feelings

  He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

  3.6 · 24 votes · 16 reads

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• Various

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

  4.6 · 40 votes · 110 reads

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• Nature

  I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

  4.1 · 57 votes · 188 reads

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• Art and Culture

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

  4.8 · 11 votes · 196 reads

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• Time

  I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

  4.6 · 21 votes · 102 reads

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• Feelings

  I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

  4.4 · 14 votes · 97 reads

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• Government and Politics

  I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

  3.6 · 19 votes · 121 reads

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• Various

  If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

  3.4 · 58 votes · 13 reads

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• Nature

  In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

  3.2 · 60 votes · 142 reads

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• Various

  Know thyself.

  4.7 · 47 votes · 198 reads

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• Various

  Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

  3.1 · 26 votes · 23 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

  3.1 · 63 votes · 93 reads

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• Government and Politics

  No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

  4.9 · 43 votes · 46 reads

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• Society

  Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

  4.3 · 10 votes · 44 reads

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• Society

  Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

  4.3 · 19 votes · 164 reads

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• Virtues

  One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

  3.0 · 20 votes · 59 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

  4.2 · 42 votes · 14 reads

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• Various

  Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

  4.2 · 14 votes · 72 reads

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• Society

  Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

  3.0 · 12 votes · 46 reads

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• Virtues

  The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

  5.0 · 52 votes · 119 reads

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• Nature

  The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

  3.2 · 60 votes · 72 reads

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• Defects

  The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbour.

  4.3 · 23 votes · 23 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

  3.2 · 47 votes · 123 reads

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• Feelings

  The hottest love has the coldest end.

  4.9 · 6 votes · 75 reads

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• Nature

  The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

  4.3 · 5 votes · 151 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

  3.1 · 52 votes · 190 reads

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• Time

  The unexamined life is not worth living.

  3.8 · 39 votes · 188 reads

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• Time

  The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

  3.5 · 61 votes · 106 reads

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