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Socrates Quotes & Sayings

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
- Socrates

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!"
- Socrates

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
- Socrates

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
- Socrates

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
- Socrates

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
- Socrates

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