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Socrates Quotes & Sayings

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“As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.”
Socrates
“Be of good cheer then, my good Crito, and say that you are burying my body only, and do with that as is usual, and as you think best.”
Socrates
“For no impure thing is allowed to approach the pure.”
Socrates
“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.”
Socrates
“How many things I can do without!”
Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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2,435
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Socrates
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