Greek - Philosopher | 469 BC - 399 BC
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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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
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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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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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