Socrates Quotes

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
-Socrates in Marriage quotes.

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates in Life quotes.

"Be as you wish to seem."
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"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
-Socrates in Life quotes.

"To find yourself, think for yourself."
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"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."
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"He is richest who is content with the least."
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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 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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"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."
-Socrates in Jealousy quotes.

"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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"You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise."
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"When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser."
-Socrates

"Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools."
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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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"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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"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."
-Socrates in Food quotes.

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
-Socrates

"When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . ."
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"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
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"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
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"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
-Socrates in Friendship quotes.

"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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"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
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"And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all."
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"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them."
-Socrates

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
-Socrates