Socrates

Quote: Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. [ Socrates]

Quote: The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods. [ Socrates]

Quote: He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. [ Socrates]

Quote: Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. [ Socrates]

Quote: Call no man unhappy until he is married. [ Socrates]

Quote: They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. [ Socrates]

Quote: I pray thee, O God that I may be beautiful within. [ Socrates]

Quote: I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. [ Socrates]

Quote: Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. [ Socrates]

Quote: Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? [ Socrates]

Quote: Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth. [ Socrates]

Quote: And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. [ Socrates]

Quote: The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. [ Socrates]

Quote: Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. [ Socrates]

Quote: The unexamined life is not worth living. [ Socrates]

Quote: There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. [ Socrates]

Quote: Beware the barrenness of a busy life. [ Socrates]

Quote: How much there is in the world I do not want. [ Socrates]

Quote: He is the richest who is content with the least. [ Socrates]

Quote: In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. [ Socrates]

Quote: Wisdom begins in wonder. [ Socrates]

Quote: From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. [ Socrates]

Quote: The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows. [ Socrates]

Quote: Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. [ Socrates]

Quote: Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. [ Socrates]

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