"Knowledge is our ultimate good."
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"Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue."
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"Laws are not made for the good."
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"The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself."
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"If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself."
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"In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable."
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"The examined life is the only life worth living."
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"I know that I know nothing."
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"What a lot of things there are a man can do without."
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"The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."
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"So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?"
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"Not I, but the city teaches."
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"Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy."
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"All I know is that I do not know anything"
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"It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do."
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"To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god ."
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"There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table."
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"Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form."
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"If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men."
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"Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher"
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