There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
By the same author and on kindred topics.
It seems I am wiser than this man in this: although neither of us knows anything beautiful and good, he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas I, as I do not know, do not think I know either.
I know that I know nothing.
Are you not ashamed that you care for wealth, reputation and honour, but do not care for wisdom, truth and your own soul?
The fear of death is nothing other than the pretence of wisdom, for it is to think one knows what one does not know.
One should never return wrong for wrong, nor do evil to anyone, whatever evil one may have suffered.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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