True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.Socrates
Could I climb the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim, 'Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom one day you must relinquish it all'
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But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
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We too must endure and persevere in the inquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faintheartedness in searching for courage which after all may, very likely, be endurance.
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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