Socrates

Ancient Greece
-470 // -399
Philosopher

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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death
Let him that would move the world first move himself
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings
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