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"[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."
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"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."
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"It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance."
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"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
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"Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness."
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