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A classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Many would claim that Plato's dialogues are the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity.
Here are some famous quotes by Socrates.
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Know thyself.
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To do is to be.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
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To find yourself think for yourself.
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What you cannot enforce do not command.
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An unexamined life is not worth living.
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As for me all I know is that I know nothing.
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He is richest who is content with the least.
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How many things there are which I do not want.
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Not life but good life is to be chiefly valued.
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
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What most counts is not to live but to live aright.
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The fewer our wants the nearer we resemble the gods.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
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One thing only I know and that is that I know nothing.
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I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world.
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There is only one good knowledge and one evil ignorance.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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If a man would move the world he must first move himself.
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Contentment is natural wealth luxury is artificial poverty.
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I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world.
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
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Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.
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He is richest who is content with the least for content is the wealth of nature.
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He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general for God knows best what is good for us.
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Bad men live that they may eat and drink whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.
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As to marriage or celibacy let a man take which course he will; he will be sure to repent it.
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If a man is proud of his wealth he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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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.
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He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher.
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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.
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Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life ourselves and the world around us.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.
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If all 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.
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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 content to take their own and depart.
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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government.
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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.