Quotes by Socrates

Socrates

Socrates

Greek philosopher

Lived from: 469 - 399

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagGreece

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  • Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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  • Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by 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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  • Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
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  • From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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  • How many are the things I can do without!
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  • I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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  • I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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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 pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
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  • I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
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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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  • In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
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  • Know thyself.
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  • Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
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  • Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
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  • Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
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  • No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
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  • Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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  • Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
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