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Quote of Socrates - My advice to you is get...


Biography - Socrates:

*Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -469 - Died: -399
Period:
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

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



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Quotes for: happiness


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Quotes about happiness:


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.





The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.











Quotes for: philosopher


Quotes

Quotes for: philosopher


Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.





Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.





Clarity is the good faith of philosophers.





I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'





The beard does not make the philosopher.
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The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.











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Socrates also said...


All I know is that I know nothing.





Beware the barrenness of a busy life.





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





The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.





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





Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.












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