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
heart mind spirit
Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit...
giving-up men mind
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
soul mind study
A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.
mind might poet
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
exercise mind delight
Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.
book reading mind
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
inspiration mind body
There is no illness of the body except for the mind
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The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
enjoy enjoyment later
Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty
good men virtue
Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.
beauty inward man outward
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.