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"If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason."
"Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil."
"It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His."
"If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth."
"One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man."
"If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood."
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all."
"It was far too cold. The second I got out I had this incredible headache, I'm just not used to it. The last time I saw snow was years and years ago."
"I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing."
"[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death."
"Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know."
"I know what I do not know."
"Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles."
"Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'"
"True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many."
"As for me, all I know is I know nothing."
"'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth."
"Athletics have become professionalized."
"We shall be better, braver, and more active if we believe it right to look for what we don't know."
"The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom."