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470 BC–399 BC Greece
Socrates (Σωκράτης; c. 470 BC – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus.
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Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him.
I hold that to need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach divinity.
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
It would be better for me... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
O beloved Pan, and all ye other gods of this place, grant me to become beautiful in the inner man.
The surest, as the shortest way, to make yourself beloved and honored, is to be, indeed, the very man you wish to appear.
He says somewhere that man is the measure of all things, of the existing, that they are, and of the non-existing, that they are not.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
I myself know nothing, except just a little, enough to extract an argument from another man who is wise and to receive it fairly.
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or after death.
If we are to use the women for the same things as the men, we must also teach them the same things.
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
He [Socrates] would say that the rest of the world lived to eat, while he himself ate to live.
Those who buy things out of season, at an extravagant price, expect never to live till the proper season for them.
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