Socrates Quotes
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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
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The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.
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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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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
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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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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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Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
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Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
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I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.
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The examined life is the only life worth living.
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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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Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
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She soars on her own wings.
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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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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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Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure.
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In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing.
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Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
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Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?