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"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less." ~ Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
-Socrates
Socrates do not necessarily claim to be historically accurate, and are often partisan. For instance, those who prosecuted and convicted Socrates have left no testament. Historians, therefore, face the challenge of reconciling the various evidence from the extant texts in order to attempt an accurate and consistent account of Socrates's life and work. -Google
Wisdom begins in wonder.⠀
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Socrates available to each of them, to give their own interpretation of the nature of his teaching, giving rise to different versions in each case. For example in Aristophanes's play The Clouds, Socrates is made into a clown of sorts, particularly inclined toward sophistry, who teaches his students how to bamboozle their way out of debt. -Google⠀
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.⠀
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Socrates has been encumbered with the adulation and emulation normally reserved for religious figures – strange for someone who tried so hard to make others do their own thinking and for someone convicted and executed on the charge of irreverence toward the gods. -Google⠀
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Wisdom begins in wonder. ~Socrates
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
-Socrates
Socrates reached the age of thirty. Good looks and proper bearing were important to a man’s political prospects, for beauty and goodness were linked in the popular imagination. The extant sources agree that Socrates was profoundly ugly, resembling a satyr more than a man—and resembling not at all the statues that turned up later in ancient times and now grace Internet sites and the covers of books. -Google
An unexamined life is not worth living.
-Socrates
Socrates’s tribe was Antiochis, and his deme was Alopece (south-southeast of the city wall). Assuming that his stoneworker father, Sophroniscus, kept to the conventions, he carried the infant around the hearth, thereby formally admitting him into the family, five days after he was born, named him on the tenth day, presented him to his phratry (a regional hereditary association) and took responsibility for socializing him into the various institutions proper to an Athenian male. -Google
The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing. -Socrates
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