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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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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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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and th...more

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Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy a...more

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I only know that I know nothing

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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 prepari...more

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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alon...more

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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.