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Socrates Quotes - Page 17

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May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

Wise, Men, Self

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

God, Goes On, Courses

In Plato 'Apology' 42a

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Food, Weight Loss, Healthy Habits

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

Men, Delight, Opinion

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

Winning, Say Anything, Way

For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

Men, Gentleman, Good Man

"The Dialogues of Plato, Vol. 1". Book by Plato, Clarendon Press, p. 148, 1871.

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

Moving, Impact, Assessment

I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.

Wise, Knows

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

Men, Immortality, Creation

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

Names, May, Assignments

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

Character, Soul, Alphabet

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

Inspiration, Oracles, Poet

I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.

Spring, Soul, Reincarnation

"Phaedo". Book by Plato,

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Death, Running, Faster

Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?

Mother, Country, Father

"Crito". By Plato,

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.

Life, Soul, Beginning Middle And End

God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.

Real, Bed, Makers

Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.

Apology, Men, Cost

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

Men, Rose, Empires

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

Wonder

I know what I do not know.

Knowledge, Knows

"Apology". Book by Plato, 399 BC.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Wisdom, Ignorance, Knowledge

All I know is that I do not know anything

Knows

It was far too cold. The second I got out I had this incredible headache, I'm just not used to it. The last time I saw snow was years and years ago.

Years, Snow, Lasts

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

People, Greek, Source

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