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«Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
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«My belief is that to have no wants is divine»
«Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| About:
Change,
Equality,
Intelligence,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
extremely, resist
«The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.»
«I shall never act differently, even if I have to die for it many times»
«The hottest love has the coldest end.»
«Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?»
«Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.»
«No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades- that of government»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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hardest, meanest, qualified, qualifies, qualify, qualifying, sufficiently, trade, trades, undertakes, undertook
«Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.»
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