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The Most Famous Socrates Quotes About Life

by Jimmy June 17, 2023, 5:20 pm

Most Famous Socrates Quotes,

Socrates was a famous Greek philosopher and he had many interesting things to say about life. These quotes are some of the most famous Socrates quotes about life. (See ”The Best Quotes of All Time About Life” on Rankito).

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This famous quote by Socrates is often quoted by many scholars and philosophers to show the significance of the human spirit.

Despite all the hardships that we face in life, we will always have to go through them for as long as we live. (Visit Amazon to Buy Book about Socrates).

Socrates believed that humans were born with some “virtues” which make us able to go through all our sorrows, pain and hardship in life.

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#1 “I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”

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#2 “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

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#3 “To find yourself, think for yourself.”

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#4 “One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.”

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#5 “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

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#6 “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”

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#7 “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”

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#8 “The hottest love has the coldest end.”

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#9 “Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”

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#10 “Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”

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#11 “I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”

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#12 “An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all”

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#13 “There is only one good — knowledge; and only one evil — ignorance.”

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#14 “Nothing is to be preferred before justice.”

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#15 “The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.”

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#16 “Let him that would move the world, first move himself.”

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#17 “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”

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#18 “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”

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