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Socrates

circa 470 - 399 BC. Greek philosopher, mainly interested in epistemology and ethics, influenced on Plato, Aristotle and the whole philosophy of West.

1. "Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior."

categories: Authority, Government -:- Woman and Man

2. "What a lot of things there are a man can do without."

3. "True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

4. "The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."

categories: Art and Culture

5. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

6. "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

categories: Good and Evil -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

7. "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows."

categories: Life and Death

8. "Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."

categories: Human -:- Joy and Sadness

9. "Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Life and Death

10. "Philosophy begins with wonder."

categories: Science and Technology

11. "One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."

categories: Forgiveness -:- Justice

12. "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."

categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

13. "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

categories: Education

14. "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to hale."

categories: Various

15. "He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

categories: Richness and Money

16. "Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds."

categories: Success and Fame

17. "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Good and Evil

18. "Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

categories: Envy

19. "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

categories: Education

20. "Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."

categories: Anger -:- Manners and Ethics

21. "Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

categories: Life and Death

22. "Call no man unhappy until he is married."

categories: Happiness -:- Marriage

23. "By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

categories: Marriage

24. "Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou are in, continue firm and constant."

categories: Friendship and Hostility

25. "Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. "

categories: Life and Death -:- Good and Evil

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

categories: Good and Evil -:- Life and Death

27. "As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent."

categories: Marriage


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