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.	Wisdom begins in wonder.

.	We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.

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

.	The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

.	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.

.	Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

.	Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

.	My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

.	Let him that would move the world first move himself.

.	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.

.	I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

.	It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

.	If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

.	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.

.	If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

.	I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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

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

.	Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

.	Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannise their teachers.

.	Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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

.	Be as you wish to seem.

.	As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

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