Popular Quotes by Socrates

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• Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

  Socrates#Fame 618

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• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

  Socrates#Wisdom 176

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• If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

  Socrates#Wealth 113

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• The hottest love has the coldest end.

  Socrates#Love 104

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• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

  Socrates#Wisdom 96

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• The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

  Socrates#Reputation 93

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• Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

  Socrates#Women 87

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• If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

  Socrates#Misfortune 81

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• Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

  Socrates#beauty 77

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• Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

  Socrates#Truth 72

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