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[H]e was nearest to the gods in that he had the fewest wants. (Socrates)
Really, Ischomachus, I am disposed to ask: "Does teaching consist in putting questions?" Indeed, the secret of your system has just this instant dawned upon me. I seem to see the principle in which you put your questions. You lead me through the field of my own knowledge, and then by pointing out analogies to what I know, persuade me that I really know some things which hitherto, as I believed, I had no knowledge of. View quote
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. View quote
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. View quote
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. View quote
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. View quote
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. View quote
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Let him that would move the world first move himself. View quote
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To gain a good reputation, endeavor to be what you desire to appear. View quote
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. View quote
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. (Socrates)
The more I learn, the less I realize I know. View quote
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To find yourself, think for yourself. View quote
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. View quote
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. View quote
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I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others. View quote
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Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. View quote
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Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth. View quote
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If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command. View quote
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He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. View quote
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A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house. (Socrates)
My belief is that to have no wants is divine. View quote
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Whom do I call educated First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men. View quote
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change. View quote
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. View quote
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