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• 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.

• Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

• Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

• Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

• Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

• Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

• Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

• He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

• If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

• Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

• Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

• Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

• Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

• The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

• The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

• To find yourself, think for yourself.

• When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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