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" All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. "
Immortal
Souls
Men
" An honest man is always a child. "
Always
Man
Honest Man
" As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. "
Sure
Will
Take
" A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. "
Values
Illusion
Morality
" Be as you wish to seem. "
You
Wish
Wisdom
" Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. "
Short-Lived
Tyranny
Beauty
" Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. "
Which
Man
Kind
" Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. "
Slow
Fall
Art
" Beware the barrenness of a busy life. "
Busy Life
Busy
Life
" 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. "
Marriage
Wife
You
" Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. "
Human
Death
Blessings
" Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. "
Hard
Others
Yourself
" False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. "
Soul
Words
Evil
" From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. "
Desires
Often
Hate
" He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. "
Against
Man
Away
" He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. "
Least
Who
Wealth
" I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. "
Nothing
I Am
Man
" 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. "
Wisdom
Poetry
Find
" If all 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. "
Own
People
Contented
" If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. "
Known
Man
How
" I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. "
Nothing
Know
Ignorance
" I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. "
Am
I Am
Intelligence
" I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. "
Good
Wish
Power
" It is not living that matters, but living rightly. "
Living
Matters
Rightly
" I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. "
Politician
Live
Man
" Let him that would move the world first move himself. "
Would
Him
First
" No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods. "
Good Man
Life
Man
" Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. "
Chiefly
Valued
Life
" Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. "
Equal
Once
Man
" One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. "
Right
Return
Evil
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