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Wisest is he who knows he knows not.
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You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
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Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
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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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Wind buffs up empty bladders opinion, fools.
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Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Death offers mankind a full view of truth.
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I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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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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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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If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.
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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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Laws are not made for the good.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.
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Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
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The greatest flood has the soonest ebb the sorest tempest the most sudden calm the hottest love the coldest end and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.
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