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  • #1
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #2
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    Socrates

  • #3
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    Socrates

  • #4
    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    Socrates

  • #5
    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    Socrates

  • #6
    Socrates
    “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
    Socrates

  • #7
    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    Socrates

  • #8
    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    Socrates

  • #9
    Socrates
    “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
    Socrates

  • #10
    Socrates
    “Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
    Socrates

  • #11
    Socrates
    “The hottest love has the coldest end.”
    Socrates

  • #12
    Sun Tzu
    “Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #13
    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #14
    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #15
    Sun Tzu
    “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #16
    Sun Tzu
    “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #17
    Sun Tzu
    “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #18
    Sun Tzu
    “There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #19
    Sun Tzu
    “Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #20
    Sun Tzu
    “The wise warrior avoids the battle.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #21
    Sun Tzu
    “There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #22
    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    Plato

  • #23
    Plato
    “Love is a serious mental disease.”
    Plato, Phaedrus

  • #24
    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    Plato

  • #25
    Plato
    “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
    Plato

  • #26
    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    Plato, The Republic

  • #27
    Plato
    “Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
    Plato

  • #28
    Plato
    “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
    Plato

  • #29
    Plato
    “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
    Plato, The Republic

  • #30
    Plato
    “I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”
    Plato



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