| Quotes |
Topic |
| Adversity | If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own. |
| Advice | The unexamined life is not worth living. |
| Advice | Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. |
| Advice | If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. |
| Advice | An unexamined life is not worth living. |
| Advice | Let him that would move the world first move himself. |
| Advice | What you cannot enforce, do not command. |
| Advice | Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. |
| Advice | If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart. |
| Advice | There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. |
| Advice | He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. |
| Advice | Wisdom begins in wonder. |
| Advice | The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. |
| Bereavement | Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. |
| Children | Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. |
| Children | I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. |
| Cliches and One Liners | My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher. |
| Cliches and One Liners | If all the 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. |
| Contentment | Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. |
| Depression | Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. |
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