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Firsts Quotes by Socrates
- The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
- Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ...
- Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in…
- The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
- It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens…
- Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When…
- Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
- If you would seek health, look first to the spine.
- I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in…
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