Socrates Quotes

469-399 BC, Greek Philosopher of Athens
quotes
69
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“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
Beauty
“Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.”
Happiness
“Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.”
Fame
“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
Love
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
Life and Living
“A multitude of books distracts the mind.”
Books and Reading
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Growth
“Call no man unhappy until he is married.”
Happiness
“How many are the things I can do without!”
Possessions
“Nothing is to be preferred before justice.”
Justice
“Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.”
Enjoyment
“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
Death and Dying
“The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.”
Wisdom
“The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.”
Desire
“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
Feminism
“I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.”
Love
“What a lot of things there are a man can do without.”
Wealth
“Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.”
Slander
“Let him that would move the world, first move himself.”
Influence
“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”
Hatred
“One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.”
Knowledge
“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
Good and Evil
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
Contentment
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
Teachers and Teaching
“I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
Humankind
“The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.”
Envy
“See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.”
Nature