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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates - 3Up 15Down 1
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates - 4Up 15Down 1
Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.
Socrates - 5Up 14Down 1
Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
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Know thyself.
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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
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An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
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Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men.
Socrates - 13Up 9Down 1
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates - 14Up 9Down 1
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates - 15Up 7Down 0
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates - 16Up 8Down 1
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Socrates - 17Up 6Down 0
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
Socrates - 18Up 7Down 1
What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
Socrates - 19Up 7Down 1
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Socrates - 20Up 7Down 1
If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.
Socrates - 21Up 7Down 1
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates - 22Up 8Down 2
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Socrates - 23Up 8Down 2
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates - 24Up 8Down 2
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates - 25Up 9Down 3
There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.
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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?
Socrates - 27Up 8Down 3
Call no man unhappy until he is married.
Socrates - 28Up 7Down 2
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Socrates - 29Up 8Down 3
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates - 30Up 6Down 1
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates - 31Up 6Down 2
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates - 32Up 6Down 2
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Socrates - 33Up 5Down 1
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.
Socrates - 34Up 5Down 1
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates - 35Up 5Down 2
How many are the things I can do without!
Socrates - 36Up 5Down 2
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates - 37Up 5Down 2
Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
Socrates - 38Up 4Down 1
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
Socrates - 39Up 4Down 1
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates - 40Up 4Down 1
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Socrates - 41Up 4Down 1
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.
Socrates - 42Up 4Down 1
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.
Socrates - 43Up 4Down 1
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates - 44Up 4Down 1
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
Socrates - 45Up 4Down 2
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates - 46Up 4Down 2
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
Socrates - 47Up 4Down 2
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates - 48Up 3Down 1
Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
Socrates - 49Up 3Down 1
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates - 50Up 5Down 4
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Best Socrates Quotes at 8/22/2012 2:30 PM