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“Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.” quote by Socrates — Download Open image

“Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.”

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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.

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Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

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Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

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If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

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“I only know, I know nothing”

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

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Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

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“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no one know whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is not this ignorance of a disgraceful sort, the ignorance which is the conceit that…

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and…

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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

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