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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates / Plato's Apology
Plato's Apology
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates / Plato's Apology
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"See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all."
Robert Burton / Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 7.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 7.
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"Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place."
Robert Burton / Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 5.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Socrates . . . Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men."
John Milton / Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 274.
Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 274.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart."
Plutarch / Consolation to Apollonius.
Consolation to Apollonius.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Socrates said, "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.""
Plutarch / How a Young Man ought to hear Poems. 4.
How a Young Man ought to hear Poems. 4.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
Plutarch / Of Banishment.
Of Banishment.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason."
Diogenes Laertius / Socrates. v.
Socrates. v.
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"Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!""
Diogenes Laertius / Socrates. x.
Socrates. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.""
Diogenes Laertius / Socrates. xi.
Socrates. xi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance."
Diogenes Laertius / Socrates. xiv.
Socrates. xiv.
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"He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance."
Diogenes Laertius / Socrates. xvi.
Socrates. xvi.
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"Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it.""
Diogenes Laertius / Socrates. xvi.
Socrates. xvi.
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"He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live."
Diogenes Laertius / Socrates. xvi.
Socrates. xvi.
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"He used to say that personal beauty was a better introduction than any letter; but others say that it was Diogenes who gave this description of it, while Aristotle called beauty "the gift of God;" that Socrates called it "a short-lived tyranny;" Theophrastus, "a silent deceit;" Theocritus, "an ivory mischief;" Carneades, "a sovereignty which stood in need of no guards.""
Diogenes Laertius / Aristotle. xi.
Aristotle. xi.
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"Not because Socrates said so, . . . I look upon all men as my compatriots."
Michael de Montaigne / Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
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"Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly."
Alain René le Sage / Gil Blas. Book viii. Chap. ix.
Gil Blas. Book viii. Chap. ix.
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