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

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

-- Socrates

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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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Be as you wish to seem.

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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.

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Wisdom begins in wonder.

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