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"But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal."
"If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful."
"Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth]."
"Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know."
"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."
"The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried."
"Books are immortal sons deifying their sires."
"I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are."
"Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him."
"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all."
"Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails."
"The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
"Philosophy begins in wonder."
"Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors."
"Ignorance: the root of all evil."
"They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'"
"Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude."
"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."
"Ideas are the source of all things"
"But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?"