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Socrates' West Virginia Apology - A Geocaching Story I was walking through the Hemlock Forest on the Mabel Dowdy Hiking Trail - Lo and Behold Another Idea for A Geocache to Plant. Socrates would have boded well to commune with Nature among the Hemlock Trees in Appalachia versus drinking Hemlock Tea in Athens. Famous Socrates Quotes I drank WHAT? -- Socrates The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance. -- Socrates Let him that would move the world first move himself. -- Socrates I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. -- Socrates "Wisdom begins in wonder." -- Socrates What you cannot enforce, do not command. -- Socrates Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. -- Socrates If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. -- Socrates He is richest who is content with the least. -- Socrates He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. -- Socrates Here are Socrates' two simple rules for life: Know Thyself Take nothing in Excess -- Socrates I know I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. -- Socrates If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart. -- Socrates Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers. (Socrates, 5th Century BC) "The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection." --Socrates-- Abracadabra  |
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10/19/2007 2:53 pm |
oh beautiful WV......my home state "Love One Another, As I Have Loved You" Luke 22:1-38; John 13
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