Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds

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

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

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly...

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly...

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Be as you wish to seem.

Be as you wish to seem.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend...

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend...

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there...

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there...

The hottest love has the coldest end.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but...

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but...

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.