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The unexamined wallet is not worth holding. And yet here you are, checking it every four minutes.

— Socrates, watching you refresh the chart

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I know that I know nothing. You, however, claimed to know the bottom — and bought it three times on the way down.

— Socrates, on technical analysis

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Know thyself. Know thine entry. Know that the dev wallet has been moving for the past six minutes and none of you noticed.

— Socrates, on chain analysis

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Beware the barrenness of a busy chart. Volume without direction is simply a man screaming into a candle.

— Socrates, on wash trading

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He who is not content with a 2x will not be content with a 100x. He will, however, be content to hold through a 97% drawdown while posting "we're so back."

— Socrates, a week before getting rugged

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Strong minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Weak minds ask when Binance in the Telegram at 2 in the morning.

— Socrates, in the group chat

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To find yourself, first lose yourself entirely — preferably in a coin with no roadmap, no team photo, and a name that is simply a picture of a cat wearing a hat.

— Socrates, on the hero's journey

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The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. The old coin that rugged me at 4am is irrelevant. I have moved on. I bought another one exactly like it.

— Socrates, coping magnificently

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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. The CA, however, is in the pinned message. Please read the pinned message.

— Socrates, doing entry-level alpha

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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Either way: better than holding this bag into hour seven.

— Socrates, on long-term conviction

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little. Unfortunately, no one in this chat has ever attempted that, and several of you have lost money they did not technically have.

— Socrates, in the hodlers channel

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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Especially the dev who has now posted "we back" four times today and means it every single time.

— Socrates, giving grace to the devout

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The measure of a man is what he does with power. Also what he does when he controls 80% of the liquidity in hour two and everyone is watching.

— Socrates, a direct message to the dev

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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. Specifically the wonder you feel watching your entire position become a red candle of unusual ambition in under forty seconds.

— Socrates, on market structure

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An honest man is always a child. The man who buys the top is also always a child. These are different conditions that produce the same outcome.

— Socrates, gently

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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think. Specifically, I want you to think about why you put 70% of your portfolio into a coin called $SOCKS at midnight.

— Socrates, on financial literacy

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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. I say this not as philosophy, but as someone who has watched the same man buy the same rug four times in one week.

— Socrates, with compassion

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. You, however, posted your "analysis" in three different chats before the coin had been alive for eleven minutes.

— Socrates, reading the replies

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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. False knowledge exists in the form of a chart you drew on your phone at 3am and called a "W pattern."

— Socrates, on technical literacy

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He is richest who is content with the least. You are not he. You are the man who sold the least and held the most and watched them both go to zero in sequence.

— Socrates, tallying the damage