About Socrates
Socrates (; Ancient Greek: Σωκράτης, romanized: Sōkrátēs; c. 470 – 399 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, perhaps the first Western moral philosopher, and a major inspiration on his student Plato, who largely founded the tradition of Western philosophy. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and...
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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