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Quotes By Socrates

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Philosopher

Socrates

c.470 BC - 399 BC

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

If you would seek health, look first to the spine.

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

Be as you wish to seem.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

All thinking begins with wondering.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.