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#1

“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ”
― Plato

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#2

“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
― Plato, Apology

tags: apology, knowledge, plato, socrates, wisdom

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#3

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome

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#4

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: perseverance, suicide, survival

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#5

“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
― Socrates

tags: change, self-determination, self-development

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#6

“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
― Socrates

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#7

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
― Socrates

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#8

“understanding a question is half an answer”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

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#9

“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
― Socrates

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#10

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
― Socrates

tags: philosophy-of-life, psychology, relationships

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#11

“It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.”
― Socrates

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#12

“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”
― Confucius, The Analects

tags: faithfulness, loyalty, sincerity

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#13

“We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910

tags: brotherhood-of-man, interdependence, loyalty

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