Socrates

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1. Socrates - Noun

2. Socrates - Proper noun

Meaning

ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC)

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I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates. Steve Jobs

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? Dale Carnegie

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. Jack Kevorkian

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook. Anton Chekhov

A Socrates in every classroom. Alfred Whitney Griswold

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. Michel de Montaigne

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