| 81 Famous Quotes by Socrates
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“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty”
Contentment Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”
Drinking Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
Equality Quotes |
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“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
Fidelity Quotes |
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“Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit”
Flattery Quotes |
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“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”
Food Quotes |
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“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”
Gluttony Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance”
Ignorance Quotes |
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Improvement Quotes |
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“The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.”
Intelligence Quotes |
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“Nothing is to be preferred before justice.”
Justice Quotes |
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“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
Man Quotes |
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“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”
Politicians Quotes |
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“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”
Praise Quotes |
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“The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.”
Righteousness Quotes |
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“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
Superiority Quotes |
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“Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.”
Virtue Quotes |
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“Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.”
Worth Quotes |
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“I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.”
Wrestling Quotes |
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“You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am
infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching
death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they
have in going to the God they serve.”
Swans Quotes Source: see Plato's "Phaedo", 77
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“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat
and drink that they may live.”
Eating Quotes Source: Plutarch's Morals--How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems
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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 Quotes |
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Socrates Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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