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| Socrates Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me. | Account |
| 2 | If all our 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. | Adversity |
| 3 | Whatsoever task thou assigneth me to do, sooner I would suffer a thousand deaths than to forsake it. | Commitment |
| 4 | Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. | Contentment |
| 5 | Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. | Death |
| 6 | If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men. | Dispute |
| 7 | The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. | Evil |
| 8 | Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods. | Faith |
| 9 | Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. | Fame |
| 10 | Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. | Friendship |
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