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I cannot teach anybody anything,

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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By all means marry if

By all means marry if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
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Science says 'We must live,'

Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
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Only the extremely ignorant or

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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Virtue does not come from

Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.
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I know that I am

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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I thought to myself, 'I

I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know.
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Children today are tyrants. They

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
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He is richest who is

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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I am the wisest man

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology)
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