Nice Quotes #65: Socrates

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

Socrates


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Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Those who are hardest to love need it the most.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Esteemed friend, citizen of Athens, the greatest city in the world, so outstanding in both intelligence and power, aren't you ashamed to care so much to make all the money you can, and to advance your reputation and prestige--while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your soul you have no care or worry?

To be is to do.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

I did not care for the things that most people care about– making money, having a comfortable home, high military or civil rank, and all the other activities, political appointments, secret societies, party organizations, which go on in our city . . . I set myself to do you– each one of you, individually and in private– what I hold to be the greatest possible service. I tried to persuade each one of you to concern himself less with what he has than with what he is, so as to render himself as excellent and as rational as possible.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.

Through your rags I see your vanity.