Quote of Socrates - My advice to you is get...

Biography - Socrates:

*Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -469 - Died: -399
Period:
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

Quote

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.”
Socrates

Quotes about happiness:

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.”
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
Seneca - De Vita Beata

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.”
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.”
Jeremy Bentham

happiness

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
Epicurus

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Quotes for: philosopher:

Clarity is the good faith of philosophers.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.”
Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
Karl Marx - Theses on Feuerbach

The beard does not make the philosopher.”

philosopher

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays

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Socrates also said...

All I know is that I know nothing.”
Socrates

to know

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
Socrates

life

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
Socrates

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

time

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
Socrates

beauty

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