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

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

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Socrates

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.

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Socrates

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Beauty

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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Death