81 Famous Quotes by Socrates
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About Socrates
Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Many would claim that Plato's dialogues are the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity.
Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who also lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus. The latter remains a commonly used tool in a wide range of discussions, and is a type of pedagogy in which a series of questions are asked not only to draw individual answers, but also to encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand. It is Plato's Socrates that also made important and lasting contributions to the fields of epistemology and logic, and the influence of his ideas and approach remains strong in providing a foundation for much western philosophy that followed.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Drinking
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Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.
Worth
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Children
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When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal.
Equality
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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.
Honor
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Depression
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own.
Adversity
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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? Only God knows.
Departure
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Food
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Gluttony
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Praise
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The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
Righteousness
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