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Other Quotes by Socrates
- Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
- To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
- Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
- 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…
- Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
- I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other…
- 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…
- 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…
- Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on…
- 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…
- Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
- 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,…
- 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…
- '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...…
- 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…
- I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am…
- 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…
- When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
- And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the…
- Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in…
- 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.
- I was afraid that by observingobjects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses Imight blind my soul altogether.
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