Socrates Quotes About Evil

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  • The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

  • False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

  • To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

  • The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

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

  • He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

  • The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

  • Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

    "Apology". 29a - b. By Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett,
  • Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

  • I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

  • If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

  • Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.

  • One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

  • Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

  • There is but one evil, ignorance.

  • It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

  • To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

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Socrates

  • Born: 471 BC
  • Died: 399 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher