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Socrates
I drank WHAT?
-- Socrates
The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.
-- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
-- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
-- Socrates
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
-- Socrates
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
-- Socrates
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid
undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
-- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known
how he employs it.
-- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
-- Socrates
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what
he would like to have.
-- Socrates
Here are Socrates' two simple rules for life:
Know Thyself
Take nothing in Excess
-- Socrates
I know I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
-- Socrates
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must
take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and
depart.
-- Socrates
Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in
place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room;
they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their
food and tyrannize their teachers.
(Socrates, 5th Century BC)
"The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a
collective, it is all of us together that make perfection."
--Socrates--
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