Socrates Quotes

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• One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.
• How many things I can do without!
• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth…
• In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
• An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
• If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
• 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…
• I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
• The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human…
• The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
• I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
• Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
• The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
• Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
• I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other…
• It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
• There is but one evil, ignorance.
• Follow the argument wherever it leads.
• Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
• Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

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