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Socrates
  • "All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."
  • "An honest man is always a child."
  • "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is I know nothing."(There are many variations of this quote, no one is quite sure what he exactly said.)
  • "Be as you wish to seem."
  • "Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
  • "By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher and that is a good thing for any man.""Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
  • "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
  • "From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
  • "I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."


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