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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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I only know that I know nothing

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As for me all I know is that I know nothing.

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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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I went to interview a man with a high reputation for wisdom, because I felt that here if anywhere I should succeed in disproving the oracle and pointi...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]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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.