" The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. "

Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

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

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth. "

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262. Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" The unexamined life is not worth living. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" 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. "

Socrates, In “Apology,” sct. 21, by Plato. Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" The unexamined life is not worth living for man. "

Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . . "

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus. Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. "

Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. "

Socrates, In “1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,” ed. Robert Byrne, 1988 Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise. "

Socrates, Phaedrus, sct. 275 Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" He is richest who is content with the least. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" Envy is the ulcer of the soul. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. "

Socrates, from Plutarch, Of Banishment Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. "

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing. "

Socrates, Crito,” (Plato) Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

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