More from Socrates

  1. Wisdom begins in wonder.
  2. I drank what?
  3. Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
  4. The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of e…
  5. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
  6. If anyone thinks that Socrates is proven to have lied about his daimon because the jury condemned him to death when he stated that a divini…
  7. What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
  8. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fo…

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