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Letter "S" » Socrates Quotes
«Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.»
«Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
bare, bared, barer, bares, barest, baring, compliments, sensible, The Tokens, tokens
«False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.»
«Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.»
«They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.»
«I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.»
«Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.»
«Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.»
«I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.»
«Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
acquire, acquisition, acquisitions, battles, due, revolutions, slaves, solely, undertaken, wars
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