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“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”

Socrates · Good

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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.

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Socrates

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Intelligence

Socrates

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Fear

Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Wisdom