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.

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolute night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos. read more

• Thought Succumb Temptation Using Violence Struggle Unborn Generations Recipients Long Desolute Night Bitterness Chief Legacy Future Endless Reign Meaningless Chaos

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine. read more

• Thought Most Shadows Life Caused by Standing Our Own Sunshine

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed. read more

• Thought Such Thing Accident Fate Misnamed

A good spouse and health is a person"s best wealth. read more

• Thought Good Spouse Health Person Best Wealth

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. read more

• Thought Tears Shed for Self Weakness Others Sign Strength

The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. read more

• Thought Secret Change Focus Energy Fighting Old Building New

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? read more

• Thought Fear Death Friends Think Ourselves Wise Without for What Do Anything Men Tell Greatest Good Happen Them They Knew Quite Well Evils Shameful Ignorance Thinking

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

• Thought Bad Men Live They Eat Drink Whereas Good

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing. read more

• Thought Thing Nothing

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. read more

• Thought by Means Marry Get Good Wife Become Happy Bad Philosopher