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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
― Socrates

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Anonymous

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

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”
― Socrates

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

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

“To be is to do”
― Socrates

“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.”
― Socrates

“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
― Socrates

“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.”
― Socrates

“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
― René Descartes