I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing h… — Quoted

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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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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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