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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
Great, Live, Greatest
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
Life, Good, Valued
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
Courage, Enemy, Away
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Life, Living, Worth
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Socrates
Knowledge, True, Nothing
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Socrates
Woman, Made, Once
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Socrates
Living, Matters, Rightly
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Socrates
Evil, Him, Injustice
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
Marriage, Sure, Repent
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates
Proud, Until, Wealth
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, Philosophy, Themselves
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
Everyone, Common, Contented
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates
Beauty, Tyranny
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates
Live, Honest, Politician
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates
Beauty, Delight, Bait
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
Good, Desire, Reputation
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, Power, Wish
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates
Life, God, End
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
Socrates
Gods, Poets
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, Reverence, Everywhere

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Nationality: Greek
Born: 469 BC
Died: 399 BC

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