1. “The hottest love has the coldest end.”
2. “Love is a madness. The madness of love is the greatest of Heaven’s blessings.”
3. “Love is a beautiful thing.”
4. “Love is a madness that only the blessed can cure.”
5. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
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6. “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
7. “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher.”
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8. “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
9. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
10. “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
11. “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
12. “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
13. “To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
14. “I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
15. “Let him that would move the world first move himself.”
16. “No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.”
17. “It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”
18. “Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”
19. “The more you know, the more you realize how much you don’t know.”
20. “All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”
21. “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
22. “Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”
23. “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
24. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
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25. “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
26. “I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”
27. “The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.”
28. “We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
29. “The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
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30. “The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”
31. “I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”
32. “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
33. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
34. “From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”
35. “Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
36. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
37. “No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
38. “Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
39. “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
40. “He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”
41. “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
42. “As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”
43. “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
44. “I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
45. “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.”
46. “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
47. “Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
48. “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
49. “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
50. “If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”
51. “Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”
