We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Death pays all debts.
As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.
The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.
We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.
Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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