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.
By all means marry if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll …
Read MoreScience says ‘We must live,’ and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says ‘We must die,’ and seeks how to make us die well.
Science says ‘We must live,’ and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable …
Read MoreOnly the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
Read MoreVirtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.
Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . …
Read MoreI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Read MoreI thought to myself, ‘I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know.
I thought to myself, ‘I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but …
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