All Socrates Quotes
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Nature
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Socrates
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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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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
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