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That which was not before can not be afterwards, without becoming and having become.


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SOCRATES The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
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SOCRATES Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
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SOCRATES The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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SOCRATES The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
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SOCRATES Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
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SOCRATES They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
SOCRATES How many are the things I can do without!
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SOCRATES He is richest who is content with the least.
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SOCRATES I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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SOCRATES An honest man is always a child.
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SOCRATES Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
SOCRATES There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
SOCRATES Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
SOCRATES Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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SOCRATES Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
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SOCRATES Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
SOCRATES Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
SOCRATES Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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SOCRATES He is the richest who is content with the least
SOCRATES To find yourself, think for yourself
SOCRATES Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATES The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.
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SOCRATES I only know that I know nothing
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SOCRATES The misuse of language induces evil in the soul
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SOCRATES To do is to be.
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SOCRATES My belief is that to have no wants is divine
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