Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thoughts. He was born in Alopece. He is known as the “father of western philosophy” he was died on 15th February 399 BC in classical Athens. he was a great philosopher.
Top 100 Quotes Of Socrates.
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By all means marry. If you get a good spouse you’ll become happy, while if you get a bad one you’ll become a philosopher.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind came by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Wisdom is knowing what you don’t know.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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The mind is everything; what you think you become.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
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There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The value of a man is measured in the number of those who stand beside him, not those who follow.
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I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
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Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
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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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I call myself a peaceful warrior because the battles we fight are on the inside.
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Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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Smart people learn from everything and everyone. Average people from their experiences. Stupid people already have all the answers.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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If I save my insight, I don’t attend to weakness of eyesight.
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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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We gain our first measure of intelligence when we first admit our own ignorance.
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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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Call no man unhappy until he is married.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
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Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
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True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.
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Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
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Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
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How many are the things I can do without!
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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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 cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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An honest man is always a child.
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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
