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"And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry."
"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."
"I know one thing, that I know nothing."
"For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others."
"My divine sign indicates the future to me."
"I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence."
"Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth."
"When our feet hurt, we hurt all over."
"The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst."
"Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn."
"Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat."
"False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil."
"Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly."
"The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping."
"If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth."
"You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything."
"The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing."
"I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another."
"Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man."
"YOU ARE NOT ONLY GOOD TO YOURSELF, BUT THE CAUSE OF GOODNESS IN OTHERS"