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Doe Quotes by Socrates
- He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he…
- You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or…
- To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
- Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
- To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does…
- Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
- Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is…
- If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.
- This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
- To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
- This is a universe that does not favor the timid.
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