Socrates quotes - page 10

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure. (Socrates)

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

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Give me beauty in the inward soul may the outward and the inward man be at one.

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

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Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

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If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division. (Socrates)

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

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I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

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I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

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Virtue does not come from wealth, but ... wealth, and every other good thing which men have ... comes from virtue.

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The Ancient oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

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Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

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Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections, will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life.

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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. (Socrates)

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

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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.

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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

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Socrates

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Occupation: Greek Philosopher
Born: 470 BC
Died: 399 BC
Quotes count: 265
Wikipedia: Socrates

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