Socrates Quotes

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• Every action has its pleasures and its price.
• So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?
• The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.
• I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
• 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,…
• By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are…
• The more I know, the more I know that I don't know.
• Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.
• Be true to thine own self.
• I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the…
• In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate…
• I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know...
• All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth
• Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
• The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.
• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
• People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
• We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.
• It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
• My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

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