Top 80 Socrates Quotes
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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.
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How many things are there which I do not want.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.
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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
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Call no man unhappy until he is married.
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The Delphic 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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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