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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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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.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.
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