Socrates Quotes - Page 4

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• In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

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  Life, Childhood, Age

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• If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

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  Silence, Doe, Silent

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• Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

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  Wells

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• There is no learning without remembering.

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  Remember

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• Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.

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  Jewels, Names, Advice

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• The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.

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  Integrity, Reality, Greatness

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• Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

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  Children, Kissing, Thinking

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• The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

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  Success, Ignorance, Evil

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• The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

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  Perfect, Together, Collectives

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• I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

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  Citizens, World, Goodwill

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• There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear

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  Answers

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• A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

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  Emotional, Sound, Ethics

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• Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

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  Writing, Heart, Men

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• An honest man is always a child.

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  Children, Philosophy, Men

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• Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Married

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• Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

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  Faith, Wisdom, Thinking

  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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• Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

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  Prayer, Blessed, Philosophical

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• The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

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  Life, Important, Principles

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• I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

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  Money, Jewels, Soul

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

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  Men, Life Is Like, Dew

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• If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

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  Want, What You Want, Ifs

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• Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

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  Soul, Virtue

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

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  Needs, Known, Values

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• wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

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  Blessing, Doe, Wealth

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• Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

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  Food, Beer, 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”

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