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Socrates Quotes

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates

Biography

Author Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: Greek
Born: 469 BC
Died: 399 BC

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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