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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.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi) 
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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
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.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
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
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
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.
- Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I decided that it was not wisdom that
enabled poets to write their poetry,
but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets
who deliver all their sublime messages
without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
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.
- Socrates
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice,
I would have English Channels round every country.
And the atmosphere would be such that
anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
- Winston Churchill
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
You are perfect. You are complete.
Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Many of us have been conditioned to trust others' opinions
more than our own, and I believe that sort of trust is excessive.
This is especially true with regard to authority figures -
doctors, lawyers, priests. I trust my doctor's intentions toward me,
but I don't blindly follow his suggestions
without checking other sources also.
He was trained to prescribe a pill for everything,
and does it with the best of intentions,
but I often choose to trust God's quiet voice inside me
rather than my doctor's medical advice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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