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Philosophical Quotes by Socrates
- The only thing I know is that I know nothing
- I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing
- An unexamined life is a life of no account.
- The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is…
- Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or…
- The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
- The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
- Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
- Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
- Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
- They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
- Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical,…
- An unexamined life is not worth living.
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- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle