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Socrates Quotes
«The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| About:
Honor
| Keywords:
increase, in reality, live with, shortest, strengthen, surest, The Practice
«The ancient oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, Greeks, know nothing, oracle, oracles, the Greeks, wisest
«We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
attainable, contemplate, dead soul, get rid of, profess, professes, professing, The Argument
«Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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affairs, depression, depressions, elation, prosperity, stable, stables, the Depression, undue
«If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
and others, by me, discussions, disobey, disobeyed, disobeying, Every Little Thing, examining, ionizing, keep quiet, livable, on that, persuaded, The God