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All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
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There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
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Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.
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Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
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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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One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.
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Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
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The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
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The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.
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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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Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?
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How many things are there which I do not want.
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death
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The warm love has the coldest end.
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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
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