Quotes by Socrates

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain...

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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you...

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Be as you wish to seem.

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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will...

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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there...

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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true...

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The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will...

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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can...

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I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world

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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

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