Socrates Quotes
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Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools
[Conceit]
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
[Wisdom]
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Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior
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Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
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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.
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You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
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You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.
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