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- The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
- In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those…
- There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.
- The more I learn, the less I realize I know.
- The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
- Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on…
- The more I know, the more I know that I don't know.
- People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
- 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…
- It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
- No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that…
- If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.
- The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
- You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more…
- The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to…
- If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.
- Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas…
- 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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