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To fear death my friends SocratesQuotes
To fear death my friends SocratesQuotes

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise – Socrates

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?.

Socrates

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Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, student of Socrates (c. 470–399 BCE), teacher of Aristotle (384–322 BCE) and author of philosophical works of unparalleled influence. He was the founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
Born: 428/427 BCE, Athens, Greece
Died: 348/347, Athens )
Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: Greek

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