The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
[ranking: 58]
Socrates
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.
[ranking: 10]
Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
[ranking: 64]
Socrates
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
[ranking: 32]
Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
[ranking: 6]
Socrates
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
[ranking: 53]
Socrates
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