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Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates
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Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?
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Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.
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It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
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The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.
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There is no difference between knowledge and temperance for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.
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