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Socrates Quotes
"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest
hate."
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of
the world."
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil,
ignorance”
"He is richest who is content with the least, for
content is the wealth of nature."
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art
in, continue firm and constant."
"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing."
"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the
righteous are immortal and divine."
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which
course he will, he will be sure to repent."
"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."
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other
men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored
hard for."
"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."
Compiled
by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com
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