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Socrates Quotes

«Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.»
«Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.»
«False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | About: Words | Keywords: infect, infected, infecting, infects
«Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | Keywords: dew, dews, drop, leaf, leafing
«They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | Keywords: do-nothing, employed, idle
«I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | Keywords: know nothing, wisest
«Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | Keywords: inward, outward
«Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | Keywords: hit, slanderer, slanderers
«I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.»
«Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.»

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