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Quotes By author - Starting with S - Socrates
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There are 45 quotes for the author Socrates
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
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Knowledge
Work: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Knowledge
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Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
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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 and depart.
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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 soul altogether.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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