Socrates Quotes!!

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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own.
Topic: Adversity
Source: None
       
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None        

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None        

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None        

An unexamined life is not worth living.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None        

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None        

What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None        

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None        

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None        

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None        

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None        

Wisdom begins in wonder.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None        

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None        

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Topic: Bereavement
Source: None        

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Topic: Children
Source: None        

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
Topic: Children / Youth
Source: None        

My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None        

If all the 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.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None        

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Topic: Contentment
Source: None        

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Topic: Depression
Source: None        

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Topic: Dishonesty
Source: None        

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Topic: Eating
Source: Plutarch's Morals--How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems        

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Topic: Faith
Source: None        

Crito, I owe a @#%$ to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Topic: Famous Last Words
Source: None        

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Topic: Hatred
Source: None        

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Topic: Ignorance
Source: None        

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Topic: Immortality
Source: None        

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None        

To find yourself, think for yourself.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None        

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None        

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will-he will be sure to repent it.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None        

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None        

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None        

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None        

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None        

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Topic: Knowledge
Source: None        

Crito, I owe a @#%$ to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Topic: Last words
Source: None        

The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
Topic: Literature
Source: None        

A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None        

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None        

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None        

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None        

He is richest who is content with the least.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
       
I know I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None        

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None        

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
Topic: Nature
Source: None        

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: None        

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None        

What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None        

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None        

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None        

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.
Topic: Senses
Source: None        

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
Topic: Swans
Source: see Plato's "Phaedo", 77        

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Topic: Teachers
Source: None        

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
Topic: Want
Source: None        

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None        

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None        

Wisdom begins in wonder.
Topic: Wisdom
Source: None

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