I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SOCRATESI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SOCRATESTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESAre you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
SOCRATESOnce made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
SOCRATESThe greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
SOCRATESTo be is to do.
SOCRATESThe beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
SOCRATESRemember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
SOCRATESAn unconsidered life is not one worth living.
SOCRATESGod would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
SOCRATESMy plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESEnvy is the ulcer of the soul.
SOCRATESThe great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESMankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
SOCRATESNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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