Socrates quotes - page 10

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. (Socrates)
Happiness is unrepentant pleasure. View quote
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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. View quote
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Give me beauty in the inward soul may the outward and the inward man be at one. View quote
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A multitude of books distracts the mind. View quote
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor. View quote
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact. View quote
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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms. View quote
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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. View quote
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Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me. View quote
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing. (Socrates)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler. View quote
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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. View quote
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Virtue does not come from wealth, but ... wealth, and every other good thing which men have ... comes from virtue. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Socrates)
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. View quote
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Nothing is to be preferred before justice. View quote
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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. View quote
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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods. View quote
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