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Socrates Quotes & Sayings

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
- Socrates

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

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

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
- Socrates

You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.
- Socrates

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
- Socrates

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
- Socrates

What you cannot enforce, do not command.
- Socrates

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.
- Socrates

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
- Socrates

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