SOCRATES

- Quotes/Paraphrases attributed to him

By Plato

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I shall obey the god rather than you.

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Wonder is the beginning of philosophy.

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The care of the soul is the highest task.

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The greatest good for a human being is to discuss virtue every day.

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Care not for your body or wealth before the improvement of your soul.

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One must obey the laws, or persuade them.

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

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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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The greatest blessing granted to mankind comes by way of ( divine ) madness.

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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death.

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It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.

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No one knowingly does wrong.

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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

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I am wiser than this man; neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows, whereas I do not think I know.

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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any person, no matter how one has been mistreated by them.

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Grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within.

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

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Wealth does not bring excellence, but excellence brings wealth and every other public and private blessing.

O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all?

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But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.

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Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius; pay the debt and do not neglect it.

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"Then, Cebes, beyond all doubt, the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will truly exist in the other world.

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But already it is time to depart; for me to die, and for you to live. Which of us is going to a better lot is known to no one, except the god.

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By Xenophon

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It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

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Be as you wish to seem.

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The best life is lived by those who take the best care to make themselves as good as possible; and the pleasantest life by those who are most conscious that they are becoming better.

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By Diogenes Laertius

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

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