Socrates Quotes

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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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.

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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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Wisdom begins in wonder.

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Be as you wish to seem.

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

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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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