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Socrates.- if all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of socrates rather than the bible as a guide to morals and reason... the pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... socrates excels the founder of christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. and he also possessed the finer intellect.
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Socrates.- If All Goes Well, The Time

Friedrich Nietzsche
Socrates.- if all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of socrates rather than the bible as a guide to morals and reason... the pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... socrates excels the founder of christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. and he also possessed the finer intellect.
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