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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
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The more I learn, the less I realize I know.
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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.
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Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
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An honest man is always a child.
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It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.
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I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
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Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.
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Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.
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Wisdom is knowing when you don't know
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Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure
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