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"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
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"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?'."

"Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age."

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

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"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."
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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially."


"It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful."


"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."


"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."


"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."
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