I was hoping you could tell me where the quote “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” by Socrates actually comes from. What work by Socrates or how we know the quote. If you could help me with that because you are a performer of computer wizardry by day.
December One-liners
Here are the December additions to the one-liners collection.
- “I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” - Pablo Picasso
- “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” - Pablo Picasso
- “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” - Pablo Picasso
- “To copy others are necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.” - Pablo Picasso
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” - Plato
- “It is only the dead who have seen the end of war.” - Plato
- “Love is a serious mental disease.” - Plato
- “I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
- “There’s nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
- “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money.” - Robin Williams
- “Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it.” - Salvador Dali
- “When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.” - Sigmund Freud
- “I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” - Socrates
- “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” - Socrates
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