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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.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.