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"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."
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"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own."
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"We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there."
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"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
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"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."
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