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Socrates

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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.


— Socrates


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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.


— Socrates


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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.


— Socrates


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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.


— Socrates


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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.


— Socrates


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The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.


— Socrates


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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.


— Socrates


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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.


— Socrates


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Did you know about Socrates?

Democracy was at last overthrown by a junta known as the Thirty Tyrants led by Plato's relative Critias who had been a friend of Socrates. On the one hand he drew a clear line between human ignorance and ideal knowledge; on the other Plato's Symposium (Diotima's Speech) and Republic (Allegory of the Cave) describe a method for ascending to wisdom. In 406 he was a member of the Boule and his tribe the Antiochis held the Prytany on the day the Generals of the Battle of Arginusae who abandoned the slain and the survivors of foundered ships to pursue the defeated Spartan navy were discussed.

It is Plato's Socrates that also made important and lasting contributions to the fields of epistemology and logic and the influence of his ideas and approach remains strong in providing a foundation for much western philosophy that followed. 469 BC – 399 BC) was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics and it is this Platonic Socrates who also lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method or elenchus.

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