I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
SOCRATESI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
More Socrates Quotes
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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 misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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