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Quotes By Socrates

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Philosopher

Socrates

c.470 BC - 399 BC

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it.

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves.

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

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

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

We are what we think we are.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.