Socrates Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

  Socrates

  Life, Wisdom, Being Yourself

• 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

• The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.

  Socrates

  Memories, Writing, Character

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

  Socrates

  Character, Soul, Alphabet

• What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

  Socrates

  Character

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