Socrates
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Greekphilosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Plato's dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity, though it is unclear the degree to which Socrates himself is "hidden behind his 'best disciple', Plato"...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
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Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.
men giving soul
Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.
mother nursing desire
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.
wind fool opinion
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
wise men keys
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
running spiritual heart
The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.
wise apology thinking
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
war animal needs
If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.
apology men trials
Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
wise men littles
The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.
husband wife philosopher
By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.
littles command ifs
If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
men healthy training
No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.
philosophical knows one-thing
I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing