Author: Socrates

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

- Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

- Socrates

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

- Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

- Socrates

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

- Socrates

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

- Socrates

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

- Socrates

Be as you wish to seem.

Be as you wish to seem.

- Socrates

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

- Socrates

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