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' Advice to Married People, Greece High Definition, 2020
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Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher known for his influential contributions to the field of ethics and his method of questioning others to stimulate critical thinking. He is famously portrayed in dialogues by his student, Plato, and is remembered for his teachings on moral integrity and the pursuit of wisdom.
d. 399
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' Advice to Married People, Greece High Definition, 2020
A man who has not hit his Claude limit by noon has wasted his morning.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle, The British Weekly, 1897
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.The Republic, 380 BC
Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
An unexamined life is not worth living.Apology, 38a, 399 BC
The unexamined life is not worth living.Apology, 38a, 399 BC
Bad company corrupts good character.1 Corinthians 15:33, The Bible
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.Apology, Plato, 22d, translated by Harold North Fowler, 1966
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.Apology, sct. 21, by Plato
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.Plato, Phaedrus, 370 BC
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.Laches, by Plato
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.The Socratic Method, 2023
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.Apology, Plato, 399 B.C
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.Apology, 22d, Plato, 1966
The only thing I know is that I know nothing.Apology, 22d, Plato, translated by Harold North Fowler, 1966
There is only one good, knowledge, and only one evil, ignorance.Lives of Eminent Philosophers, quoted by Diogenes Laertius, p. 161, 2006
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.Apologia 28 b
That’s all 24 quotes by Socrates.