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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (20319)	11/18/2005 11:15:36 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20773

Famous Quotes by Socrates 1. "In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence." ~ Socrates (469-399 BC) 2. "And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels — temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth — she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes." ~ Socrates (469-399 BC) 3. "You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve." ~ Socrates (469-399 BC) 4. "The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them." ~ Socrates (469-399 BC) 5. "I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict." ~ Socrates (469-399 BC) 6. "If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division." ~ Socrates (469-399 BC) 7. "I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man: neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point: I do not think that I know what I do not know.'" ~ Socrates (469-399 BC) 8. "Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know." ~ Socrates (469-399 BC) 9. "When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love." ~ Socrates (469-399 BC) 10. "We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime." ~ Socrates (469-399 BC) zaadz.com