All Socrates Quotes
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
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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.
Socrates in
Marriage
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates in
Nature
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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.
Socrates
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates in
Wisdom
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Socrates
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