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Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
– Socrates

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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
– Socrates

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Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.
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Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity, sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practice daily these eighteen “ities” You will soon attain immortality.
– Socrates

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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
– Socrates

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
– Socrates

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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
– Socrates

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Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
– Socrates

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So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?
– Socrates

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Know Thyself.
– Socrates

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Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?
– Socrates

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Man, know thyself.
– Socrates

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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
– Socrates

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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
– Socrates

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