I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are...
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
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I only know that I know nothing
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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I went to interview a man with a high reputation for wisdom, because I felt that here if anywhere I should succeed in disproving the oracle and pointi...
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...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.
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...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the he...
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
