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From Quotes by Socrates
- From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either…
- 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 am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of…
- When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and…
- 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…
- Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
- 'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts...…
- We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate…
- I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to…
- No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that…
- Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
- One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
- Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge
- It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner…
- One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is…
- From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
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