Socrates
Socrates (c.470 BC - 399 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher who is widely credited for laying the foundation for Western philosophy.
Found 57 thoughts of Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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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.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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By all means get married, 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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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
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Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance
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Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
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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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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...and that is a good thing for any man.
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
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To find yourself, think for yourself
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
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We too must endure and persevere in the inquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faintheartedness in searching for courage; which after all may, very likely, be endurance.
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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