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Best Men Quotes by Socrates
- 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.
- A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death.
- 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,…
- An honest man is always a child.
- The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
- And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels -…
- It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens…
- In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
- One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
- I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am…
- I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he…
- Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either…
- A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor…
- It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and…
- Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
- This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
- Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.
- 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…
- The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
- To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
- For who is there but you? Who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have…
- Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
More Men Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle