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Socrates Quotes

"I know that I know nothing" Is a saying derived from Plato's account of the Greek philosopher Socrates: "For I was conscious that I knew practically nothing..."

Is a saying derived from Plato's account of the Greek philosopher Socrates: "For I was conscious that I knew practically nothing..."

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." Does this quote of Socrates state that there is no true evil in this world.

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.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

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