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

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

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

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.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

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

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

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

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