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Know thyself.

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The unexamined life is not worth living.

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I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are...more

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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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One day, the old wise Socrates walks down the streets, when all of the sudden a man runs up to him "Socrates I have to tell you something about your f...more

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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 th...more

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...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.

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...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the he...more

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...[T]hose who care about their souls and do not subordinate them to the body dissociate themselves firmly from these others and refuse to accompany t...more

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If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to...more

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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?