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It was in this way that Socrates became what he was, by paying attention to nothing other than reason in everything that he encountered.

—Epictetus, Enchiridion (The Manual of Living)
Category: PhilosophyMood: PhilosophicalTags: #socrates #reason #focus #model
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And you, even if you are not yet a Socrates, ought to live as one who wishes to be a Socrates.

—Epictetus, Discourses of Epictetus, Book II
Category: WisdomMood: MotivationalTags: #aspiration #ideal #striving #socrates
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Know thyself, and you will know the universe and the gods.

—Ancient Greek Proverbs, Gnothi seauton (Γνῶθι σεαυτόν) — Inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Category: WisdomMood: PhilosophicalTags: #self-knowledge #delphic-maxim #socrates #consciousness #truth
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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

—Ancient Greek Proverbs, Ho de anexetastos bios ou biotos anthropoi — Socrates (Plato's Apology 38a)
Category: WisdomMood: PhilosophicalTags: #socrates #inquiry #reflection #examined-life #truth
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Beware the barrenness of a frantically busy life.

—Ancient Greek Proverbs, Socratic Maxims & Classical Moral Lore
Category: WisdomMood: ReflectiveTags: #busyness #solitude #stillness #socrates #simplicity
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Wisdom begins in wonder.

—Ancient Greek Proverbs, To thaumazein (Τὸ θαυμάζειν) — Plato's Theaetetus 155d
Category: WisdomMood: JoyfulTags: #wonder #philosophy #curiosity #socrates #truth
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To do injustice is far more shameful and destructive to the soul than to suffer it.

—Ancient Greek Proverbs, Plato's Gorgias (474b–475e) & Classical Ethical Precepts
Category: Character & VirtueMood: BoldTags: #justice #virtue #socrates #integrity #ethics
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