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Socrates quotes

(Ancient Greek philosopher, founder of western philosophy, 470BC-399BC)

 

Inspirational Quotes

1.     By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, and you’ll become a philosopher.

2.     Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

3.     Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and weak minds discuss people.

4.     Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

5.     I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

6.     The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

7.     He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

8.     To move the world we must move ourselves.

9.     All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

10.                        Be as you wish to seem.

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

12.                        Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

13.                        If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

14.                        The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

15.                        Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

16.                        Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Life

1.     Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

2.     The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

3.     The unexamined life is not worth living.

4.     Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

5.     Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

6.     Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Education

1.     Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

 

Knowledge

1.     True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

2.     The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

3.     Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

 

Wisdom

1.     Be as you wish to seem.

2.     True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we.  understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

3.     Wisdom begins in wonder.

4.     I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

 

Death

1.     Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.