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I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

Socrates
Wise, Sorry, Apology

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Socrates
Family, Wisdom, Witty

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

Socrates
Daughter, Revenge, Pride
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”

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Socrates
Honesty, Integrity, Character

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

Socrates
Poison, Malice, Greater
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”

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

Socrates
Want, Belief, Divine
"Memorabilia". Book by Socrates,

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

Socrates
Moving, Mean, Abiding
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 beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates
Wisdom, Philosophical, Definitions

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Socrates
Death, Philosophy, People

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Socrates
Sleep, Men, Good Man
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”

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

Socrates
Airplane, Men, Flying
Quoted in Brugioni, From Balloons to Blackbirds (1993).

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

Socrates
Wise, Men, Keys

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.

Socrates
Hate, Desire, Calm

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Socrates
Greed, Body, Reason Why

All thinking begins with wondering

Socrates
Thinking, Wonder

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.

Socrates
Believe, Philosophical, Hands

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

Socrates
Happiness, Pleasure
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”

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

Socrates
Apology, Men, Yield

Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place.

Socrates
Apology, Blessing, Two
"The Apology" by Plato,

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

Socrates
Healing, Heart, Mirrors

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

Socrates
Exercise, Mind, Delight

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates
Know Thyself, Knows, Thyself

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

Socrates
Knowledge, Ultimate
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”

Talk in order that I may see you.

Socrates
Order, May, Profanity

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

Socrates
Love, Beautiful, God

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