Socrates Quotes - Page 12

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• Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

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  Life, Remember, Speak

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• Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

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  Apology, Young, Ifs

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• When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

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  Inspire, Desire, Judgment

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• It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

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  Death, Running, Wickedness

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• See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

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  Nature, Philosophical, Sea

  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”

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• Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

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  What Matters, Joy, Victory

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• For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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  Real, Knowing, Evil

  "Apology". 29a - b. By Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett,

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• Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.

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  Eye, Soul, Body

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• Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

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  Differences, Fruit, Flattery

  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”

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• Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?

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  Karma, Opposites, All Things

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• No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training

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  Men, Training, Matter

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• 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.

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  Memories, Writing, Character

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• To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

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  Ridiculous, Uncertain, Certainty

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• To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it

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  Phrases, Use, Helping

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• I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

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  People, Wish, Might

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• The more I know, the more I know that I don't know.

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  Stupidity, Knows

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• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

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  Knowledge, Knowing, True Knowledge

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• Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

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  Travel, Doe, Helping

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• Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

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  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  "Theaetetus" by Plato,

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• The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.

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  Soul, Enquiry, World

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• I call that man idle who might be better employed.

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  Men, Might, Idle

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• Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.

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  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

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• In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.

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  Motivational, Two, Excellence

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• Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.

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  Apology, Convinced

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• A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

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  Giving Up, Men, Mind

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