Socrates

Quote link. Other quotes about: live men good: "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship art friend friends: "Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad happy good wife: "By all means marry if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
Quote link. Other quotes about: today food teach: "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: anger: "Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time men hard: "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
Quote link. Other quotes about: soul: "Envy is the ulcer of the soul."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend love friends: "Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature rich: "He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing man wise: "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: think teach: "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find wisdom: "I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money old nothing man good person young teach soul: "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 chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance nothing fact: "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think little man wise: "I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first world: "Let him that would move the world, first move himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find happy good married wife: "My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher."
Quote link. Other quotes about: belief: "My belief is that to have no wants is divine."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life good value: "Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
Quote link. Other quotes about: change: "Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech freedom: "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find good rich: "Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human nothing: "Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."
Quote link.: "Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die live life wisdom making: "Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god life soul: "The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance good evil: "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing wisdom: "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance good evil: "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength find human live world: "The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life living: "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good: "The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words: "Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live: "Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men good: "Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue."
Quote link.: "Wisdom begins in wonder."

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