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

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

He is richest who is content with the least.

I know I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

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

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

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

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

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

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.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

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

Wisdom begins in wonder.