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Socrates Quote - 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.

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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Forgiveness Insult Man Respect Return Treat Wrong
Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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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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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Except FAction Ignorance Learning One Liner
Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honour Live Pretend
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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Honesty Necessary True Truth
To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Cheer Death Evil Goodness Happen Man Truth
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Blessing Death Greatness Human One Liner
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Persist
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Beware Busy Life One Liner
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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