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  • Socrates Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Socrates Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Allan Bloom Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Socrates 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.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Socrates Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Lord George Byron Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Socrates Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Socrates See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Socrates Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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  • Tom Morris Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Socrates The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Socrates The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Socrates The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Socrates The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Socrates The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Socrates The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Dale Carnegie The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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