All Socrates Quotes
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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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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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
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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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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become 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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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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