Socrates on Marriage
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates on Reputation
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The
Socrates on Marriage
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates on Friendship
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates on Food
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Socrates on Food
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.