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Danh ngôn của Socrates (Sứ mệnh: 1)

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Be as you wish to seem.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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.
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.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.