I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
SOCRATESOnce made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
More Socrates Quotes
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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