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Socrates has 347 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
• True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
• If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
• See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
• To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows…
• The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to…
• The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
• To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

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