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Things Quotes by Socrates
- Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.
- What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
- How many things are there which I do not want.
- Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either…
- How many things I can do without!
- I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
- 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…
- 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,…
- I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know...
- '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...…
- We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate…
- I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest…
- By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.
- 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…
- The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to…
- Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'
- I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who…
- Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body;…
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