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Socrates Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
— Socrates, A Quote by Socrates
Tagged: Life Quotes, Heart's Desire, Needs and Wants
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
— Socrates, Essential Thinkers
Tagged: Honor, Identity
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
— Socrates, Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 days to more Happiness, Success, and Motivation
Tagged: Postive, Motivational, Inspirational
“He is richest who is content with the least.”
— Socrates, via Amazon
Tagged: Contentment
“I prefer nothing, unless it is true.”
— Socrates, Euthyphro
Tagged: Honesty, Truth
“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
— Socrates, Socrates: Quotes & Facts
Tagged: Love, kindness, Compassion
“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
— Socrates, A Quote by Socrates
Tagged: Love, Pain, hurt, Endings, Breaking Up
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
— Socrates, The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life
Tagged: Minimalism, Less Is More, Strive For Less, Enjoy Less, Thrive On Less, Seek Less
“I have a favor to ask of the judges. When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have trouble you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to be something when they are really nothing—then reprove them, as I have reproved you, for not caring about that for which they ought to care, and thinking they are something when they are really nothing. And if you do this both I and my sons will have received just at your hands.”
— Socrates, Plato, Socrates' Apology
Tagged: Life
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