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by Esoteric | Mar 28, 2012 | Socrates
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“I cannot abandon the principles which I used to hold in the past simply because this accident has happened to me; they seem to me to be much as they were, and I respect and regard the same principles now as before. So unless we can find better principles on this occasion, you can be quite sure that I shall not agree with you; not even if the power of the people conjures up fresh hordes of bogies to terrify our childish minds, by subjecting us to chains and executions and confiscations of our property…Serious thinkers, I believe, have always held some such view as the one which I mentioned just now: that some of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.”
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by Esoteric | Mar 27, 2012 | Socrates
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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, which would be a splendid thing, if it were so. Actually they have neither. They cannot make a man wise or stupid; they simply act at random.”
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by Esoteric | Mar 27, 2012 | Socrates
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“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
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by Esoteric | Mar 26, 2012 | Socrates
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“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
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by Esoteric | Mar 26, 2012 | Socrates
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“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”