Socrates Quotes
107 Socrates quotes:
"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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"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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"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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"She soars on her own wings."
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"Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."
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"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...and that is a good thing for any man."
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"Happiness is unrepentant pleasure."
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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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"What a lot of things there are a man can do without."
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"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms."
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"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."
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"The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing."
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"See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all."
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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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"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."
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"Nothing is to be preferred before justice."
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"Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue."
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"By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. Socrates (470-399 B.C.)"
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"To find yourself, think for yourself."
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"The hottest love has the coldest end."
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