Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Socrates
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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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
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Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both?
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.. Do not courageous men endure death because they are afraid of yet greater evils?.. Then all but philosophers are courageous only from fear, and because they are afraid; and yet that a man should be courageous from fear, and because he is a coward, is surely a strange thing.
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An honest man is always a child.
man
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