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"Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction."
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."
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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."
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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."
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"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."
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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."
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"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."
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"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
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"You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes."
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"The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can."
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"Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood."
Religion
"Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it."
Beauty
"The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence."
Love
"Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed."
Care
"When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination."
Art
"The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight."
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"A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present."
God
"I am, therefore there is a God."
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