Socrates Quotes About Life

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  • Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

  • I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

  • Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

  • If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

  • The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

  • To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

  • Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

    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”
  • 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

  • If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

    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”
  • Be true to thine own self.

  • If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.

  • Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

  • Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

    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”
  • It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

  • Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

    "Theaetetus" by Plato,
  • He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

  • Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

    Crito (quoted by Plato)
  • In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

  • Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

    "The Skinny Budget Die". Book by Linda Goff, 2013.
  • The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

  • How many things I can do without!

    Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers
  • The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

  • The unexamined life is not worth living.

    In Plato 'Apology' 38a
  • He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

    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”
  • How many things are there which I do not want.

  • Every action has its pleasures and its price.

  • When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

  • Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

  • Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

  • To find yourself, think for yourself.

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    Socrates

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