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Socrates Quotes - Page 5

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Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

Socrates
Men, Life Is Like, Dew

Fear of women love more than hate the man.

Socrates
Hate, Men, He Man

The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.

Socrates
Needs, Known, Values

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

Socrates
Life, Success, Education

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Socrates
Change, Intelligent, Equality

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

Socrates
Fear, Knowledge, Never Fear

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Socrates
Life, Change, Strength

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

Socrates
Lines, Next, Crooked

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates
Book, Reading, Mind

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Socrates
Spiritual, Want, Spirituality

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

Socrates
War, Acquisition, Vegan

The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.

Socrates
Real, Artist, Memorial
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

Socrates
Friendship, Art, Fall
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”

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

Socrates
Worship

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

Socrates
Music, Grace, Soul

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

Socrates
Judging, Answers, Four
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”

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

Socrates
Humility, Pride, Men

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Socrates
Life, Money, Men
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”

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

Socrates
Inspirational, Men, Inward
"Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle".

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

Socrates
Soul, Body, Regard

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

Socrates
Real, Real Knowledge

Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?

Socrates
Ass, Should, Kicks

All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.

Socrates
Knows

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

Socrates
Death, Wise, Thinking

To harm another is to harm oneself

Socrates
Harm, Oneself

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