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Socrates

Philosopher
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
From Essential Thinkers - Socrates
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.
I only know that I know nothing
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
Know thyself.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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?
Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
From Essential Thinkers - Socrates
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.
I only know that I know nothing
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
Know thyself.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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?
Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
From Essential Thinkers - Socrates
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.
I only know that I know nothing
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
Know thyself.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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?
Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think