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“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”

— Socrates, Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Socrates II: xxxi

About Socrates

470 BC – 399 BC

Classical Athenian philosopher and a founder of Western philosophy. He wrote nothing himself; his ideas survive mainly through the dialogues of his student Plato.

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