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- The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), Quoted in: Plato's Apology, sct. 42a. Last words of his speech to the court following the sentence of death imposed on him by the Athenians.
- I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
- Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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