Socrates — "This man among you, mortals, is wisest who, like Socrates, understands that his …"
This man among you, mortals, is wisest who, like Socrates, understands that his wisdom is worthless.
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"I am a gadfly who God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching all of you."
"I only wish that wisdom were such a thing as flowed from the fuller to the emptier man, as water does from a full cup to an empty one when we a thread between them."
"For fear of death is indeed nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know."
"I do know, however, that it is wicked and shameful to do wrong, to disobey one's superior, be he god or man."
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