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• My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
  -- Socrates (470?-399 BCE) "Apology...
• I drank WHAT??????? -- Socrates (470?-399 B.C.)
• I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
  -- Socrates (470?-399 BCE) "Apology...
• The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. -- Socrates (470?-399 B.C.)
• They who provide much wealth for their children, but neglect to improve them in virtue, do like those who feed their horses high, but never train them to the manage.
  -- Socrates (470?-399 B.C.)...
• Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
  -- Socrates (470?-399 B.C.)...
• The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. -- Socrates (470?-399 B.C.)
• Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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• Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
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