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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
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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.
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
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Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
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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.