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Socrates
Greek
Philosopher
Died:
399 BC
Good
Life
Man
Nothing
People
You
Related authors:
Aristotle
Democritus
Diogenes
Epictetus
Epicurus
Heraclitus
Plato
Plutarch
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates
Man
Wealth
He
Until
Employs
Known
Proud
How
Praised
His
Should
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.
Socrates
People
Own
Everyone
Must
Would
Would-Be
Take
Misfortunes
Most
Equal
Contented
Were
Heap
Depart
Common
Whence
Laid
Portion
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Socrates
World
First
Would
Him
Himself
Move
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
Socrates
Life
Death
Good
Man
Good Man
Evil
Neglected
He
His
Gods
Happen
After
Either
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.
Socrates
Death
People
Own
Philosophy
Way
Right Way
Those
Seem
Directly
Accord
Dying
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Realize
Themselves
Really
Who
Preparing
Right
Apply
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
Socrates
Only
Poets
Gods
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates
Good
People
Power
Wish
Unlimited
Unlimited Power
Only
Had
Doing
Doing Good
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Might
Capacity
Then
Harm
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
Man
Marriage
Will
Take
He
Course
Sure
Repent
Celibacy
Which
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.
Socrates
Fear
Everywhere
Presumably
Because
Reverence
Than
Where
Extension
Wider
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