"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
-Socrates
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"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
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"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
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"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher."
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"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
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