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.
SocratesWell, then, let’s not just trust the likelihood based on painting.
SocratesThere is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
SocratesFor the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no one know whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is not this ignorance of a disgraceful sort, the ignorance which is the conceit that a man knows that he does not know? And in this respect only I believe myself to differ from men in general, and may perhaps claim to be wiser than they are: that whereas I know but little of the world below, I do not suppose that I know...
SocratesSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SocratesNow the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
SocratesRegard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
SocratesTags: integrity respect honor reputation
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
SocratesI only know that I know nothing
SocratesTags: wisdom knowledge philosophy intellect creative-thinking
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul
SocratesTags: language
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