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«How many are the things I can do without!»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
«The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be»
«Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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«When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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«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.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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«Nothing is to be preferred before justice.»
«In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.»
«A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.»
«If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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«Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.»
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