Socrates

Socrates

"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
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"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
Socrates
"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates"
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"The misuse of language induces evil in the soul"
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"wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state"
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"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?"
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"Be true to thine own self"
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"One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him."
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"“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”"
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"“The unexamined life is not worth living.”"
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"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."
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"I know one thing, that I know nothing."
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"A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come."
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"There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world."
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"Let him who would move the world first move himself."
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"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."
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"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
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"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant."
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"If I save my insight, I don’t attend to weakness of eyesight."
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"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire the other is to get it."
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"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
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