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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.
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No one ever dies an atheist.
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There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
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To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
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Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.
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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
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In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
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Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
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Our need will be the real creator.
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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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