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Greatest Quotes by Socrates
- The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
- 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…
- It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
- 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…
- To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does…
- Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and…
- If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't…
- By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
- For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one…
- 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…
- The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
- Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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