“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.” — Socrates
“Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.” — Socrates · attributed
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” — Socrates · attributed
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” — Socrates · Plato, Phaedo
“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.” — Socrates · Plato, Apology