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- The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
- 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)
- He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.
- Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology"
- The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Attributed to Socrates, in Plato's "Phaedrus"
- You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), Phaedrus, sct. 275
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