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Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.
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I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.
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A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house.
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Wisest is he who knows he knows not.
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The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.
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If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
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The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
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What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?
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The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
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One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
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Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
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Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.
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The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.
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I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.
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If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
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The examined life is the only life worth living.
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...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.
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