Socrates quotes
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“But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.”
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“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
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“He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.”
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“I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.”
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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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“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
-- Socrates#Independent Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes
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“Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.”
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“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
-- SocratesSource : "Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives". Book by Dan Millman, p. 162, 2006.
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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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“When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.”
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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
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“Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.”
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“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”
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“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”
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“I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.”
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“There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.”
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“To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.”
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“Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.”
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“The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.”
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“Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth”
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“If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all”
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“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
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“It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half”
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
-- Socrates#Inspirational Life Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Unexamined Life Quotes
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“Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.”
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“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
-- Socrates#Knowing Quotes #True Knowledge Quotes #Self Awareness Quotes
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“The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.”
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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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“The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.”
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“The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.”
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“I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.”
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“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
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“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”
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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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“The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.”
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“Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.”
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“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”
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“Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?”
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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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“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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“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”
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“They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.”
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“To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?”
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“See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.”
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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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“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.”
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“Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.”
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“To know, is to know that you know nothing.”
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“Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?”
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“Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death”
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“Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.”
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“The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.”
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“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”
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“We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.”
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“Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?”
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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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“The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.”
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“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
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“Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.”
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“Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.”
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“The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.”
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“And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.”
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“How many things are there which I do not want.”
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“Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.”
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“A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house”
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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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“What a lot of things there are a man can do without.”
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“He is the richest who is content with the least.”
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“The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.”
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“All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.”
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“If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”
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“All I know is that I do not know anything”
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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.”
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“It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.”
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“Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant”
-- SocratesSource : Socrates, Gordon Jacobs (2017). “Socrates: 100 Quotes on Life, Free Will, and Virtue”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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“I only know that I know nothing”
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“In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.”
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“The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”
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“When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.”
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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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