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Socrates
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, and the other perpetual.
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Actually from Isocrates, it can be found on [https://books.google.com/books?id=7DcHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA213#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 213] of Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650-1800: A Critical Anthology, part of a 1703 translation of a letter Isocrates wrote to h
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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No findable citation to Socrates. Found ascribed to Socrates in [https://books.google.com/books?id=w4zCIPZrniQC&pg=PA51&dq=%22be+what+we+pretend+to+be%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyvZnCg5HKAhUU5mMKHQIIAIgQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22be%20what%20we%20pretend%20to
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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
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This is actually a [http://books.google.com/books?id=FUIHmRHf8SUC&lpg=PA130&dq=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&pg=PA130#v=onepage&q=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&f=false quo
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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No findable citation to Socrates. First appears in this form in the 1990s, such as in the Douglas Bradley article "Lighting a Flame in the Kickapoo Valley", Wisconsin Ideas, UW System, 1994. It appears to be a variant on a statement from Plutarch in On Li
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
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Adapted from [http://www.archive.org/stream/schoolsofhellasa008878mbp#page/n105/mode/2up a passage in Schools of Hellas], the posthumously published dissertation of Kenneth John Freeman (1907). The original passage was a paraphrase of the complaints direc
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Know thyself.
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This statement actually predates Socrates, and was used as an Inscription at the Oracle of Delphi. It is a saying traditionally ascribed to one of the "Seven Sages of Greece", notably Solon, but accounts vary as to whom. Socrates himself is reported to ha
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The state will only ever be a half of itself.
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Socrates in Plato's Republic talking about women lacking rights. As quoted by Bettany Hughes: [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11785181/Feminism-started-with-the-Buddha-and-Confucius-25-centuries-ago.html "Feminism started with the Buddha and
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If we are to use women for the same things as the men, we must also teach them the same things.
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Socrates, as quoted by Bettany Hughes: [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11785181/Feminism-started-with-the-Buddha-and-Confucius-25-centuries-ago.html "Feminism started with the Buddha and Confucius 25 centuries ago"].
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Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.
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As reported by Charles Simmons in A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged (North Wrentham, Mass. 1852), [http://books.google.de/books?id=YOAyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA103&dq=socrates p. 103].
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
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Variant: The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. | [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=D.+L.+2.5.31&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0257#note-link14 Socrates II: xxxi]. Original Greek: ἓν μόνον ἀγαθὸν εἶναι, τὴν ἐπιστήμην, κα
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