27 quotes by Socrates

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A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Proverbs

3.9 · 40 votes · 160 reads

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Life

135 reads

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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Self-reliance

4.9 · 45 votes · 135 reads

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For the dead there are no more toils.

Death

4.1 · 34 votes

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Humankind

3.2 · 54 votes

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Socrates

Feelings
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
4.4 · 14 votes · 129 reads
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Various
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
4.6 · 18 votes · 18 reads
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Thought and Reason
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
4.8 · 51 votes · 123 reads
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Virtues
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
3.0 · 52 votes · 39 reads
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Various
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
3.4 · 23 votes · 137 reads
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Society
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
3.0 · 24 votes · 17 reads
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Virtues
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
3.3 · 30 votes · 154 reads
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Feelings
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
3.1 · 14 votes · 141 reads
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Virtues
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
3.7 · 22 votes · 48 reads
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Society
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
4.2 · 52 votes · 177 reads
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Various
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
3.0 · 35 votes · 118 reads
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Thought and Reason
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
3.6 · 56 votes · 100 reads
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Virtues
The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
4.8 · 22 votes · 199 reads
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Virtues
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
3.7 · 49 votes · 158 reads
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Society
There is no success without hardship.
3.2 · 41 votes · 154 reads
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Thought and Reason
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
4.0 · 31 votes · 16 reads
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Various
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
3.4 · 35 votes · 46 reads
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Feelings
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
4.4 · 56 votes · 8 reads
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Thought and Reason
Truth is always the strongest argument.
4.1 · 47 votes · 74 reads
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Government and Politics
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
3.9 · 46 votes · 169 reads
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Various
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
3.2 · 32 votes · 147 reads
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Virtues
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
4.0 · 58 votes · 22 reads
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