- Wisdom begins in wonder. »
- Science 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. »
- My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher. »
- Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat. »
- The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. »
- I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. »
- I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. »
- Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. »
- Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. »
- Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. »
- I 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. »
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