SOCRATES, The Master
Poor Socrates was forced to commit suicide; he was required to drink hemlock after being found guilty of corrupting the youth of Athens.
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
– Socrates
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
-Socrates
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Be as you wish to seem.
– 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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By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
-Socrates
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
– Socrates
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
– Socrates
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How many things I can do without.
– Socrates
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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
Socrates
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He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.
—Socrates.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
– Socrates, during his trial
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“My friend…care for your psyche…know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves”
~Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
– Socrates
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
– Socrates
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“The only true wisdom is in knowing
you know nothing.”
― Socrates
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
-Socrates
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The fewer our wants, the more we resemble the gods.
– Socrates
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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
– Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
-Socrates