Socrates Quotes

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• Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
• The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
• If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good…
• I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my…
• 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;…
• Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the…
• I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
• Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall…
• To know, is to know that you know nothing.
• Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what…
• Understanding a question is half an answer.
• To move the world we must move ourselves.
• The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint.…
• What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed…
• No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that…
• Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
• Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled…
• A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death.
• Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than…
• When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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