About Socrates

Athenian philosopher known to us mainly through the dialogues of Plato. (c. 470-399 BC)

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• The unexamined life is not worth living for men.Plato, Apology 38a, tr. G. M. A. Grube
• It would be better for me that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.Plato, Gorgias 482c
• There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.Plato, Phaedo 89d
• How many things I have no need of!Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, II
• Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods.Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, II

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