Socrates Quotes

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• Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ...
• It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in…
• The only thing I know is that I know nothing
• I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing
• An unexamined life is a life of no account.
• The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is…
• Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or…
• The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
• The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
• Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
• Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
• See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
• They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
• I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
• May the outward and inward man be at one.
• As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent
• There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.
• The more I learn, the less I realize I know.
• To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do…

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