"An honest man is always a child. [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]"
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"To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing."
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"You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man."
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"Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies."
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"One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom."
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"The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves."
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"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know."
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"May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure."
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"I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing"
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"I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead."
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"If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command."
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"The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions."
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"It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death."
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"Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit."
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"I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?"
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"When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all."
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"The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little."
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"Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place."
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"The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom."
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"There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand."
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