Socrates

(5566 votes)   The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(15 votes)   True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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(271 votes)   Call no man unhappy until he is married.

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BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(239 votes)   An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

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(237 votes)   The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

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(231 votes)   By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

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(231 votes)   Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

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BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(200 votes)   I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

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BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(200 votes)   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.

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BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(198 votes)   See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

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BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(195 votes)   Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

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BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(193 votes)   Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

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BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(187 votes)   Know thyself.

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BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(175 votes)   The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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(170 votes)   Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.

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BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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