The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.Ġ68. Worthless people live only to eat and drink people of worth eat and drink only to live.Ġ67. The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.Ġ66. Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.Ġ65. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.Ġ64. Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.Ġ63. Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.Ġ62. Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Ġ61. He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.Ġ60. The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.Ġ59. The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.Ġ58.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.Ġ57. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.Ġ56. Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.Ġ55. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.Ġ54. Give me beauty in the inward soul may the outward and the inward man be at one.Ġ53. The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.Ġ52. Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.Ġ51. There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.Ġ50.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.Ġ49. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.Ġ48. It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.Ġ47. When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.Ġ46. Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.Ġ45. I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.Ġ44. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.Ġ43. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.Ġ41. I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.Ġ40. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.Ġ39. Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.Ġ38. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.Ġ37. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.Ġ36. From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.Ġ35. We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.Ġ34. Let him that would move the world first move himself.Ġ33. Let him who would move the world first move himself.Ġ32. The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.Ġ31. Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.Ġ30. I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.Ġ29. It is not living that matters, but living rightly.Ġ28. The mind is everything what you think you become.Ġ27. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.Ġ26. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.Ġ25. The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.Ġ24. The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.Ġ23. Every action has its pleasures and its price.Ġ22. To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.Ġ21. Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.Ġ20. Understanding a question is half an answer.Ġ19. May the inward and outward man be as one.Ġ18. To move the world we must move ourselves.Ġ17. The unexamined life is not worth living – SocratesĠ16. There is no solution seek it lovingly.Ġ15. Beware the barrenness of a busy life.Ġ14. The hottest love has the coldest end.Ġ13. To find yourself, think for yourself.Ġ12. That is the meaning of true knowledge – SocratesĠ10. To know, is to know that you know nothing. Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people – SocratesĠ07. Quotes are sorted by increasing length count in characters and are not ranked in order of popularity. His ideology is exemplified by his students, Plato and Xenophon, through their writings and dialogues. Below are 114 timeless quotes by Socrates.

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