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Wise Quotes by Socrates
- I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.
- 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.
- To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do…
- 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…
- 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…
- Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things,…
- The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
- I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am…
- The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
- Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in…
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