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Love Quotes by Socrates

59 Love quotes by Socrates

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Socrates questions whether it’s better to suffer injustice than to commit it, linking love to moral choices. He calls virtue the beauty of the soul and says that warm love can end coldly. His thoughts also remind us that we are the source of goodness for others.

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Follow the argument wherever it leads.

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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

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When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.

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How many things I can do without!

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All things in moderation, including moderation.

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I know what I do not know.

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The only thing I know is that I know nothing

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I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

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To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

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YOU ARE NOT ONLY GOOD TO YOURSELF, BUT THE CAUSE OF GOODNESS IN OTHERS

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It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself,

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I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know...

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Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.

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If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

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Some people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.

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Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

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Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need…

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Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such…

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Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward…

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I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my…

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Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all…

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“Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such…

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Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and…

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty…

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...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty…

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There is no learning without remembering.

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How many things are there which I do not want.

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The universe really is motion & nothing else.

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I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing

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Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

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The more I know, the more I know that I don't know.

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To know, is to know that you know nothing.

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All thinking begins with wondering

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I know one thing, that I know nothing.

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The warm love has the coldest end.

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Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

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My divine sign indicates the future to me.

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The more I learn, the less I realize I know.

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

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Fear of women love more than hate the man.

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So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning,…