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#socrate

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... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#dark-humor #ego #egotism #egotist #funny

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.


Plato


#plato #socrates #death

What do you take me for? That fool Socrates, who upheld the law at the cost of his own death – just to be ironic? I suspect that act was actually the result of his secret embarrassment of his hideous nose.


Benson Bruno


#irony #law #noses #socrates #death

Wisdom may begin in wonder, however, it inevitability ends in righteousness (Socrates)." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]


R. Alan Woods


#righteousness #socrates #wisdom #wonders #r-alan-woods

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?


Allan Bloom


#become #did #easy #every #high-school

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.


Norman Cousins


#comes #delivery #famous #history #ideas

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?


Dale Carnegie


#borrowed #i #ideas #jesus #like






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