Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
SOCRATESIntelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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To be is to do.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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