Socrates

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  The Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy

• Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their
  food, and tyrannize their teachers.

  • Children

• My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not you’ll become a philosopher.

  • Marriage
  • Philosophy

All 34 quotes from Socrates

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy