Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
SOCRATESI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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