Socrates Quotes

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
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An honest man is always a child.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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.
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The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
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