Socrates Quotes
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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An honest man is always a child.
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
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The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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