"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
Socrates

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

"The unexamined life is not worth living for man."
Socrates

"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
Socrates

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

"Bad men live to eat and drink, but good men eat and drink to live."
Socrates

"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."
Socrates

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

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
Socrates

"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
Socrates

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."
Socrates

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

"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.'
Socrates

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

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

"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, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person."
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