126 Quotations by Socrates
- 21. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what ...
- 22. Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.
- 23. Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- 24. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- 25. Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
- 26. From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 27. Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
- 28. Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
- 29. Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
- 30. He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
- 31. He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
- 32. He is richest who is content with the least.
- 33. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
- 34. How many are the things I can do without!
- 35. How many things there are which I do not want.
- 36. I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece, but of the world
- 37. I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
- 38. I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
- 39. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- 40. I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct ...
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