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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Socrates?
→ A short absence is the safest.
→ The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
→ Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
→ It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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Pick the quote attributed to Socrates.
→ The unexamined life is not worth living.
→ Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
→ The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
→ As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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Select the quotation attributed to Socrates.
→ Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
→ It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
→ He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
→ Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
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One of these may be attributed to Socrates. Which one?
→ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
→ Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
→ The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
→ The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
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Which one of these belongs to Socrates?
→ The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
→ Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
→ I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
→ If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Socrates?
→ Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
→ The law is reason, free from passion.
→ These are the times that try men's souls.
→ Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Socrates.
→ Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
→ Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
→ In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
→ Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Socrates. Which one?
→ Know thyself.
→ A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
→ Law is order, and good law is good order.
→ He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Socrates?
→ The hottest love has the coldest end.
→ Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please, universal soul, practice some song, or something, through me.
→ Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won’t turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.
→ We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Socrates.
→ False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
→ Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
→ We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
→ Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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Looks like Socrates is the author of one of these.
→ The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
→ Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
→ Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
→ The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Socrates.
→ Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
→ Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
→ Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
→ Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Which one should be attributed to Socrates?
→ Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
→ We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
→ People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
→ Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Socrates?
→ He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
→ Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
→ He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
→ The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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Select the quote belonging to Socrates.
→ First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
→ Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
→ He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
→ A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Socrates.
→ The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
→ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
→ Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
→ Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Socrates.
→ There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
→ No two men can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
→ Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
→ An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Socrates?
→ Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
→ No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
→ Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
→ To be deprived of the person we love is happiness in comparison to living with one we hate.
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