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Own Quotes by Socrates
- If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own…
- The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers…
- Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord…
- Be true to thine own self.
- People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
- '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...…
- And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels -…
- The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
- She soars on her own wings.
- Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.
- I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in…
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