By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man. |
Call no man unhappy until he is married |
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners |
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. |
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. |
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty |
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? |
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. |
Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth |
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel |
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for |
Envy is the ulcer of the soul |
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. |
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds |
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit |