"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."
Socrates Quotes
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All I know is that I know nothing.
"In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep."
"The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion."
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
"He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature."
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher ... and that is a good thing for any man."
"Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ..."
"All I know is that I know nothing."
"Understanding a question is half an answer."
"All I know is that I know nothing."
"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?"
"Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat."
"The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be."
"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better."
"We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us? The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him."
"To be is to do."
"Every action has its pleasures and its price."
"Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle."
"And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows."