Socrates
Athenian philosopher (469 to 399 BCE) who wrote nothing; his words survive second-hand, chiefly in Plato's dialogues; tried and executed by the Athenian democracy on a charge of irreverence toward the gods.
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It is better to know that you do not know than to think you know what you do not
So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away: Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,—for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.
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It is better to know that you do not know than to think you know what you do not
So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away: Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,—for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.
Apology, Plato's account of his defence (tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1871) Said c. 399 BCE
No one with understanding could think a man believes in divine things yet not in gods
You have put this into the indictment because you had nothing real of which to accuse me. But no one who has a particle of understanding will ever be convinced by you that the same men can believe in divine and superhuman things, and yet not believe that there are gods and demigods and heroes.
Apology, Plato's account of his defence (tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1871) Said c. 399 BCE
Fearing death is a pretence of wisdom; no one knows whether death may be the greatest good
For the fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretence of knowing the unknown; and no one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Apology, Plato's account of his defence (tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1871) Said c. 399 BCE
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Virtue does not come from money; money and every other good come from virtue
I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private.
Apology, Plato's account of his defence (tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1871) Said c. 399 BCE
A bad man cannot injure a man better than himself
Nothing will injure me, not Meletus nor yet Anytus—they cannot, for a bad man is not permitted to injure a better than himself.
Apology, Plato's account of his defence (tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1871) Said c. 399 BCE
Anyone who honestly opposes a multitude's wrongdoing in public life will not survive; a fighter for right needs a private station
And do not be offended at my telling you the truth: for the truth is, that no man who goes to war with you or any other multitude, honestly striving against the many lawless and unrighteous deeds which are done in a state, will save his life; he who will fight for the right, if he would live even for a brief space, must have a private station and not a public one.
Apology, Plato's account of his defence (tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1871) Said c. 399 BCE
Discussing virtue daily is the greatest good, and the unexamined life is not worth living
For if I tell you that to do as you say would be a disobedience to the God, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious; and if I say again that daily to discourse about virtue, and of those other things about which you hear me examining myself and others, is the greatest good of man, and that the unexamined life is not worth living, you are still less likely to believe me. Yet I say what is true, although a thing of which it is hard for me to persuade you.
Apology, Plato's account of his defence (tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1871) Said c. 399 BCE
No evil can happen to a good man, in life or after death
Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know of a certainty, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Apology, Plato's account of his defence (tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1871) Said c. 399 BCE
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