Socrates Quotes
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If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
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The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.
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What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?
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Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.
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The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.
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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
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The examined life is the only life worth living.
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Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
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Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
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You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.
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It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
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Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
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Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
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She soars on her own wings.
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Talk in order that I may see you.
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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?
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To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
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God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.