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“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”
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“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
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“Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.”
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“Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.”
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“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.”
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“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance”
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”
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“Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.”
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“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”
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“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.”
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