Socrates Quotes on Truth
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By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful. For this appears to me the safest answer to give both to myself and others; and adhering to this, I think that I shall never fall, but that it is a safe answer both for me and any one else to give - that by means of beauty beautiful things become beautiful.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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And how is not this the most reprehensible ignorance, to think that one knows what one does not know? But I, O Athenians! in this, perhaps, differ from most men; and if I should say that I am in any thing wiser than another, it would be in this, that not having a competent knowledge of the things in Hades, I also think that I have not such knowledge.
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An honest man is always a child.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.