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"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
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"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'."
"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
"Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge."
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
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"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."
"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves."
"Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state."
"No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils."
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