Socrates Quotes
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I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.
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Virtue is the beauty of the soul.
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The warm love has the coldest end.
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A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.
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The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.
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No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.
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Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
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Wisdom belongs in wonder.
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A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
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Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.
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If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
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If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
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Knowledge is our ultimate good.
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Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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An unexamined life is a life of no account.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.