By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

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

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.