"He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature."
Socrates Quotes
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All I know is that I know nothing.
"And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows"
"From the deepest desires often comes the deadliest hate."
"And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls."
"It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one."
"Beloved Pan and all other gods, who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul, and may the outward and the inner man be at one."
"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy."
"I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man..."
"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant."
"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
"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?"
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
"The hottest love has the coldest end."
"Thou should eat to live; not live to eat."
"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."
"The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone."
"All I know is that I know nothing"
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."