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If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.
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Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.
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Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.
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This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
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The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
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Men of Athens, I honor and love you but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.
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Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.
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The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training
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Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen ities You will soon attain immortality.
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We shall be better, braver, and more active if we believe it right to look for what we don't know.
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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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I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul and may the outward and inward may be one.
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
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Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
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There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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