Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
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470 BC - 399 BC
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"Pythagoras was unwilling to profess to be a wise man, but acknowledged himself, "a lover of wisdom." "
"The reason of this we have explained; for this, too, was why Socrates used to ask questions and not to answer them; for he used to confess that he did not know."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p599
#Facts"Thus Socrates in the Phaedo first blames everybody else for having given no explanation; and then lays it down; that ‘some things are Forms, others Participants in the Forms’, and that ‘while a thing is said to «be» in virtue of the Form, it is said to «come-to-be» qua sharing in,» to «pass-away» qua «losing,» the ‘Form’. Hence, he thinks that ‘assuming the truth of these theses, the Forms must be causes both of coming to-be and of passing-away’."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p599
#Quotes"Experience with regard to particular facts is also thought to be courage; this is indeed the reason why Socrates thought courage was knowledge."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2493
#Quotes"That he should behave so when he has knowledge, some say, is impossible; for it would be strange – so Socrates thought – if when knowledge was in a man something else could master it and drag it about like a slave. For Socrates was entirely opposed to the view in question, holding that there is no such thing as incontinence; no one, he said, when he judges acts against what he judges best-people act so only by reason of ignorance."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2493
#Quotes"I am speaking of the premise from which the argument of Socrates proceeds, ‘that the greater the unity of the state, the better.’ Is it not obvious that a state may at length attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state?"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2815
#Quotes"A further example is to be found in the reason given by Socrates for not going to the court of Archelaus. Hesaid that ‘one is insulted by being unable to requite benefits, as well as by being unable to requite injuries’"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p3246
#Quotes"Thus, when Meletus denied that Socrates believed in the existence of gods but admitted that he talked about a supernatural power, Socrates proceeded to ask whether ‘supernatural beings were not either children of the gods or in some way divine?’ ‘Yes’, said Meletus. ‘Then’, replied Socrates, ‘is there anyone who believes in the existence of children of the gods and yet not in the existence of the gods themselves?’"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p3305
#Quotes"We must also take into account the nature of our particular audience when making a speech of praise; for, as Socrates used to say, ‘it is not difficult to praise the Athenians to an Athenian audience.’’"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p3169
#Agrees"This is why some say that all the virtues are forms of practical wisdom, and why Socrates in one respect was on the right track while in another he went astray; in thinking that all the virtues were forms of practical wisdom he was wrong, but in saying they implied practical wisdom he was right"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2678
#Agrees#Disagree"Again, how strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarizes between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2819
#Disagree"Again, we ought to reckon, not only the evils from which the citizens will be saved, but also the advantages which they will lose. The life which they are to lead appears to be quite impracticable. The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2819
#Disagree"The discourses of Socrates are never commonplace; they always exhibit grace and originality and thought; but perfection in everything can hardly be expected. W"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2825
#Disagree"Again, if Socrates makes the women common, and retains private property, the men will see to the fields, but who will see to the house? And who will do so if the agricultural class have both their property and their wives in common? Once more: it is absurd to argue, from the analogy of the animals, that men and women should follow the same pursuits, for animals have not to manage a household."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2825
#Disagree"For Socrates says that a man should have so much property as will enable him to live temperately, which is only a way of saying ‘to live well’; this is too general a conception. Further, a man may live temperately and yet miserably. A better definition would be that a man must have so much property as will enable him to live not only temperately but liberally; if the two are parted, liberally will combine with luxury; temperance will be associated with toil."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2827
#Disagree"There is another omission in the Laws: Socrates does not tell us how the rulers differ from their subjects; he only says that they should be related as the warp and the woof, which are made out of different wool."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2828
#Disagree"Socrates says that a state is made up of four sorts of people who are absolutely necessary; these are a weaver, a husbandman, a shoemaker, and a builder; afterwards, finding that they are not enough, he adds a smith, and again a herdsman, to look after the necessary animals; then a merchant, and then a retail trader. All these together form the complement of the first state, as if a state were established merely to supply the necessaries of life, rather than for the sake of the good, or stood equally in need of shoemakers and of husbandmen. But he does not admit into the state a military class until the country has increased in size, and is beginning to encroach on its neighbor’s land, whereupon they go to war"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2902
#Disagree"In the Republic of Plato, Socrates treats of revolutions, but not well, for he mentions no cause of change which peculiarly affects the first, or perfect state. He only says that the cause is that nothing is abiding, but all things change in a certain cycle; and that the origin of the change consists in those numbers ‘of which 4 and 3, married with 5, furnish two harmonies’ (he means when the number of this figure becomes solid); he conceives that nature at certain times produces bad men who will not submit to education; in which latter particular he may very likely be not far wrong, for there may well be some men who cannot be educated and made virtuous."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2974
#Disagree"The Socrates of the Republic is wrong in retaining only the Phrygian mode along with the Dorian, and the more so because he rejects the flute; for the Phrygian is to the modes what the flute is to musical instruments – both of them are exciting and emotional."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p3048
#Disagree"Socrates, however, was busying himself about ethical matters and neglecting the world of nature as a whole, but seeking the universal in these ethical matters, and fixed thought for the first time on definitions; Plato accepted his teaching, but held that the problem applied not to sensible things but to entities of another kind – for this reason, that the common definition could not be a definition of any sensible thing, as they were always changing."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2221
#Analysis"But when Socrates was occupying himself with the excellence of character, and in connection with them became the first to raise the problem of universal definition, but Socrates did not make the universals or the definitions exist apart: they, however, gave them separate existence, and this was the kind of thing they called Ideas."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2493
#Analysis"When I heard what Socrates had done about the lyre I should have liked for my part to have done that too, for the ancients used to learn the lyre but, at any rate, I worked hard at literature."
Book & Page: Cicero Penguin, p.99
#Report"I used besides to have pointed out to me the discourse delivered by Socrates on the last day of his life upon the immortality of the soul—Socrates, who was pronounced by the oracle at Delphi to be the wisest of men. I need to say no more. I have convinced myself, and I hold—in view of the rapid movement of the soul, its vivid memory of the past and its prophetic knowledge of the future, its many accomplishments, its vast range of knowledge, its numerous discoveries—that a nature embracing such varied gifts cannot itself be mortal."
Book & Page: Cicero pdf p.57
#Report"Socrates, who brought all of the philosophy back to ethics and said that the highest wisdom is to distinguish good from bad, said ‘If I have any influence with you at all, follow them in order to be happy, and let some think you are fool. Let whoever wishes insult you and harm you, but you still won’t suffer at all, provided that you have virtue. If,’ he says, ‘you want to be happy, if you want to be a genuinely good man, let someone hold you in contempt.’ No one will achieve this if he hasn’t himself held all things in contempt first and come to treat all goods as equal. For there is no good without the honorable, and the honorable is equal in all instances."
Book & Page: Seneca pdf p.26
#Quotes"Socrates said that truth and virtue are the same thing. Just as the former does not become greater, so too virtue does not either. It has its complement; it is full"
Book & Page: Seneca pdf p.28
#Quotes"What is the proof of this." Feel, if you can, that it is now night." That is impossible. " Put away the feeling that it is day." That is impossible. "Either feel or put away the feeling that the stars are even in number." That is impossible. When, therefore, a man assents to a falsehood, rest assured that it was not his wish to assent to it as false;" for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth," as Plato says;"
Book & Page: Empictetus pdf 179
#Quotes"So it stands here also, in the affairs of life. Who among us has not upon his lips the words "good"and" evil,"advantageous" and "disadvantageous "? Idea of each of these terms ? Very well, is it fitted into a system and complete? Prove that it is. " How shall I prove it ? " Apply it properly to specific facts. To start with, Plato classifies definitions under the preconception" the useful," but you classify them under that of "the useless." Is it, then, possible for both of you to be right ? For who among us does not have a preconceived"
Book & Page: Epictetus pdf p.223
#Quotes"He will not be harsh with anybody, because he knows well the saying of Plato, that "every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth.""
Book & Page: Epictetus pdf p.405
#Quotes"In his lifetime, too, Socrates, his master, won with my aid the victory of an unjust death."
Book & Page: Boethius IV.
#Facts"This was the opinion of Socrates, who said"every virtue is a kind of prudence," as stated in Ethic. vi, 13. Hence, he maintained that as long as man is in possession of knowledge, he cannot sin; and that every one who sins, does so through ignorance."
Book & Page: Aquinas pdf p.3194
#Quotes"And in this way, there is some truth in the saying of Socrates that so long as a man is in possession of knowledge he does not sin: provided, however, that this knowledge is made to include the use of reason in this individual act of choice."
Book & Page: Aquinas pdf p.1731
#Agrees"I answer that, As the Philosopher states, (Ethic. vii, 2), the opinion of Socrates was that knowledge can never be overcome by passion; wherefore he held every virtue to be a kind of knowledge, and every sin a kind of ignorance. In this he was somewhat right, because, since the object of the will is a good or an apparent good, it is never moved to an evil, unless that which is not good appear good in some respect to the reason; so that the will would never tend to evil, unless there were ignorance or error in the reason. Hence, it is written (Prov. 14:22): "They err that work evil.""
Book & Page: Aquinas pdf p.3488
#Agrees"I answer that, According to Valerius Maximus [Fact. et Dict. Memory.vii, 2], "Socrates deemed that we should ask the immortal gods for nothing else but that they should grant us good things, because they at any rate know what is good for each one, whereas when we pray we frequently ask for what it had been better for us not to obtain." This opinion is true to a certain extent,"
Book & Page: Aquinas pdf p. 5231
#Agrees"For this reason, Socrates held that procreation is a divne act, and love a desire for immortality as well as an immortal spirit."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne p.44
#Quotes"When someone asked Socrates of what country he was he did not reply, 'of Athens', but 'of the world'. His was a fuller and wider imagination; he embraced the whole world as his city, and extended his acquaintance, his society, and his affections to all mankind; unlike us, who look only under our own feet."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 63
#Quotes"Socrates admitted to those whorecogni2ed some inclination to vice in his face, that it was indeed his natural propensity, but that he had corrected it by discipline."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 184
#Quotes"Socrates' invariable and smiling acceptance of any contradictions advanced against his arguments might be attributed to his strength; in the certainty that the advantage would be his, he welcomed all criticisms as so many opportunities for fresh triumphs."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 291
#Quotes"And it was Socrates' opinion that should a man find himself, his son, and a stranger to be guilty of some violence or wrong, he ought to be first to offer himself for judicial condemnation, and implore for his purgation the help of the killer's hand; then do the same for his son, and lastly for the stranger. Though this precept may take rather too high a tone, a man should at least present himself first to the punishment of his own conscience."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 297
#Quotes"But as I conclude my reflections, it occurs to me that the mind of Socrates, the most perfect of which I have any knowledge, would, by this reckoning, have little to commend it. For I cannot imagine that man ever to have been prompted by evil desires"
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 178
#Praise"I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place, but Alexander in that of Socrates, I cannot. If Alexander were asked what he could do, he would reply, 'Conquer the world'; but if the same question were put to Socrates, his answer would be, 'Lead a man's life according to its natural conditions': a much more general, more important, and more legitimate undertaking."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 243
#Praise"Besides, is not the method of argument that Socrates uses here admirable also for its vigor and its simplicity? Truly, it is much easier to talk like Aristotle and to live like Caesar than to speak and live like Socrates."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 336
#Praise"But Socrates moves close to the ground and, at a gentle and ordinary pace, discourses on the most useful subjects; and, when confronted with death and with the thorniest obstacles he could meet with, he follows the ordinary course of human life."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 314
#Analysis"Socrates asked Memnon* what virtue is. "There is,'replied Memnon, 'the virtue of a man and of a woman, of a magistrate and of a private citizen, of a child and of an old person." "This is fine!" exclaimed Socrates. 'We were looking for one virtue, and here are a swarm of them.' We put one question, and receive alive full in return."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 352
#Analysis"Departed. It grieves me that Socrates, who was a perfect pattern of all great qualities, should, as reports say, have had so ugly a face and body, so out of keeping with the beauty of his soul, seeing how deeply he was enamored of beauty, how infatuated by it! Nature did him an injustice."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 338
#Facts"Nor is there anything more remarkable in Socrates than that he found time, in his old age, to take lessons in dancing and the playing of instruments, and that he thought this time well spent. This same man was seen to stand at"
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 400
#Facts"Thus Socrates in the Phaedo first blames everybody else for having given no explanation; and then lays it down; that ‘some things are Forms, others Participants in the Forms’, and that ‘while a thing is said to «be» in virtue of the Form, it is said to «come-to-be» qua sharing in,» to «pass-away» qua «losing,» the ‘Form’. Hence, he thinks that ‘assuming the truth of these theses, the Forms must be causes both of coming to-be and of passing-away’."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p599
#Quotes"Experience with regard to particular facts is also thought to be courage; this is indeed the reason why Socrates thought courage was knowledge."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2493
#Quotes"That he should behave so when he has knowledge, some say, is impossible; for it would be strange – so Socrates thought – if when knowledge was in a man something else could master it and drag it about like a slave. For Socrates was entirely opposed to the view in question, holding that there is no such thing as incontinence; no one, he said, when he judges acts against what he judges best-people act so only by reason of ignorance."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2493
#Quotes"I am speaking of the premise from which the argument of Socrates proceeds, ‘that the greater the unity of the state, the better.’ Is it not obvious that a state may at length attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state?"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2815
#Quotes"A further example is to be found in the reason given by Socrates for not going to the court of Archelaus. Hesaid that ‘one is insulted by being unable to requite benefits, as well as by being unable to requite injuries’"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p3246
#Quotes"Thus, when Meletus denied that Socrates believed in the existence of gods but admitted that he talked about a supernatural power, Socrates proceeded to ask whether ‘supernatural beings were not either children of the gods or in some way divine?’ ‘Yes’, said Meletus. ‘Then’, replied Socrates, ‘is there anyone who believes in the existence of children of the gods and yet not in the existence of the gods themselves?’"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p3305
#Quotes"Socrates, who brought all of the philosophy back to ethics and said that the highest wisdom is to distinguish good from bad, said ‘If I have any influence with you at all, follow them in order to be happy, and let some think you are fool. Let whoever wishes insult you and harm you, but you still won’t suffer at all, provided that you have virtue. If,’ he says, ‘you want to be happy, if you want to be a genuinely good man, let someone hold you in contempt.’ No one will achieve this if he hasn’t himself held all things in contempt first and come to treat all goods as equal. For there is no good without the honorable, and the honorable is equal in all instances."
Book & Page: Seneca pdf p.26
#Quotes"Socrates said that truth and virtue are the same thing. Just as the former does not become greater, so too virtue does not either. It has its complement; it is full"
Book & Page: Seneca pdf p.28
#Quotes"What is the proof of this." Feel, if you can, that it is now night." That is impossible. " Put away the feeling that it is day." That is impossible. "Either feel or put away the feeling that the stars are even in number." That is impossible. When, therefore, a man assents to a falsehood, rest assured that it was not his wish to assent to it as false;" for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth," as Plato says;"
Book & Page: Empictetus pdf 179
#Quotes"So it stands here also, in the affairs of life. Who among us has not upon his lips the words "good"and" evil,"advantageous" and "disadvantageous "? Idea of each of these terms ? Very well, is it fitted into a system and complete? Prove that it is. " How shall I prove it ? " Apply it properly to specific facts. To start with, Plato classifies definitions under the preconception" the useful," but you classify them under that of "the useless." Is it, then, possible for both of you to be right ? For who among us does not have a preconceived"
Book & Page: Epictetus pdf p.223
#Quotes"He will not be harsh with anybody, because he knows well the saying of Plato, that "every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth.""
Book & Page: Epictetus pdf p.405
#Quotes"This was the opinion of Socrates, who said"every virtue is a kind of prudence," as stated in Ethic. vi, 13. Hence, he maintained that as long as man is in possession of knowledge, he cannot sin; and that every one who sins, does so through ignorance."
Book & Page: Aquinas pdf p.3194
#Quotes"For this reason, Socrates held that procreation is a divne act, and love a desire for immortality as well as an immortal spirit."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne p.44
#Quotes"When someone asked Socrates of what country he was he did not reply, 'of Athens', but 'of the world'. His was a fuller and wider imagination; he embraced the whole world as his city, and extended his acquaintance, his society, and his affections to all mankind; unlike us, who look only under our own feet."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 63
#Quotes"Socrates admitted to those whorecogni2ed some inclination to vice in his face, that it was indeed his natural propensity, but that he had corrected it by discipline."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 184
#Quotes"Socrates' invariable and smiling acceptance of any contradictions advanced against his arguments might be attributed to his strength; in the certainty that the advantage would be his, he welcomed all criticisms as so many opportunities for fresh triumphs."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 291
#Quotes"And it was Socrates' opinion that should a man find himself, his son, and a stranger to be guilty of some violence or wrong, he ought to be first to offer himself for judicial condemnation, and implore for his purgation the help of the killer's hand; then do the same for his son, and lastly for the stranger. Though this precept may take rather too high a tone, a man should at least present himself first to the punishment of his own conscience."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 297
#Quotes"We must also take into account the nature of our particular audience when making a speech of praise; for, as Socrates used to say, ‘it is not difficult to praise the Athenians to an Athenian audience.’’"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p3169
#Agrees"This is why some say that all the virtues are forms of practical wisdom, and why Socrates in one respect was on the right track while in another he went astray; in thinking that all the virtues were forms of practical wisdom he was wrong, but in saying they implied practical wisdom he was right"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2678
#Agrees"And in this way, there is some truth in the saying of Socrates that so long as a man is in possession of knowledge he does not sin: provided, however, that this knowledge is made to include the use of reason in this individual act of choice."
Book & Page: Aquinas pdf p.1731
#Agrees"I answer that, As the Philosopher states, (Ethic. vii, 2), the opinion of Socrates was that knowledge can never be overcome by passion; wherefore he held every virtue to be a kind of knowledge, and every sin a kind of ignorance. In this he was somewhat right, because, since the object of the will is a good or an apparent good, it is never moved to an evil, unless that which is not good appear good in some respect to the reason; so that the will would never tend to evil, unless there were ignorance or error in the reason. Hence, it is written (Prov. 14:22): "They err that work evil.""
Book & Page: Aquinas pdf p.3488
#Agrees"I answer that, According to Valerius Maximus [Fact. et Dict. Memory.vii, 2], "Socrates deemed that we should ask the immortal gods for nothing else but that they should grant us good things, because they at any rate know what is good for each one, whereas when we pray we frequently ask for what it had been better for us not to obtain." This opinion is true to a certain extent,"
Book & Page: Aquinas pdf p. 5231
#Agrees"This is why some say that all the virtues are forms of practical wisdom, and why Socrates in one respect was on the right track while in another he went astray; in thinking that all the virtues were forms of practical wisdom he was wrong, but in saying they implied practical wisdom he was right"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2678
#Disagree"Again, how strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarizes between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2819
#Disagree"Again, we ought to reckon, not only the evils from which the citizens will be saved, but also the advantages which they will lose. The life which they are to lead appears to be quite impracticable. The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2819
#Disagree"The discourses of Socrates are never commonplace; they always exhibit grace and originality and thought; but perfection in everything can hardly be expected. W"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2825
#Disagree"Again, if Socrates makes the women common, and retains private property, the men will see to the fields, but who will see to the house? And who will do so if the agricultural class have both their property and their wives in common? Once more: it is absurd to argue, from the analogy of the animals, that men and women should follow the same pursuits, for animals have not to manage a household."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2825
#Disagree"For Socrates says that a man should have so much property as will enable him to live temperately, which is only a way of saying ‘to live well’; this is too general a conception. Further, a man may live temperately and yet miserably. A better definition would be that a man must have so much property as will enable him to live not only temperately but liberally; if the two are parted, liberally will combine with luxury; temperance will be associated with toil."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2827
#Disagree"There is another omission in the Laws: Socrates does not tell us how the rulers differ from their subjects; he only says that they should be related as the warp and the woof, which are made out of different wool."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2828
#Disagree"Socrates says that a state is made up of four sorts of people who are absolutely necessary; these are a weaver, a husbandman, a shoemaker, and a builder; afterwards, finding that they are not enough, he adds a smith, and again a herdsman, to look after the necessary animals; then a merchant, and then a retail trader. All these together form the complement of the first state, as if a state were established merely to supply the necessaries of life, rather than for the sake of the good, or stood equally in need of shoemakers and of husbandmen. But he does not admit into the state a military class until the country has increased in size, and is beginning to encroach on its neighbor’s land, whereupon they go to war"
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2902
#Disagree"In the Republic of Plato, Socrates treats of revolutions, but not well, for he mentions no cause of change which peculiarly affects the first, or perfect state. He only says that the cause is that nothing is abiding, but all things change in a certain cycle; and that the origin of the change consists in those numbers ‘of which 4 and 3, married with 5, furnish two harmonies’ (he means when the number of this figure becomes solid); he conceives that nature at certain times produces bad men who will not submit to education; in which latter particular he may very likely be not far wrong, for there may well be some men who cannot be educated and made virtuous."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2974
#Disagree"The Socrates of the Republic is wrong in retaining only the Phrygian mode along with the Dorian, and the more so because he rejects the flute; for the Phrygian is to the modes what the flute is to musical instruments – both of them are exciting and emotional."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p3048
#Disagree"The reason of this we have explained; for this, too, was why Socrates used to ask questions and not to answer them; for he used to confess that he did not know."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p599
#Facts"When I heard what Socrates had done about the lyre I should have liked for my part to have done that too, for the ancients used to learn the lyre but, at any rate, I worked hard at literature."
Book & Page: Cicero Penguin, p.99
#Facts"I used besides to have pointed out to me the discourse delivered by Socrates on the last day of his life upon the immortality of the soul—Socrates, who was pronounced by the oracle at Delphi to be the wisest of men. I need to say no more. I have convinced myself, and I hold—in view of the rapid movement of the soul, its vivid memory of the past and its prophetic knowledge of the future, its many accomplishments, its vast range of knowledge, its numerous discoveries—that a nature embracing such varied gifts cannot itself be mortal."
Book & Page: Cicero pdf p.57
#Facts"In his lifetime, too, Socrates, his master, won with my aid the victory of an unjust death."
Book & Page: Boethius IV.
#Facts"Departed. It grieves me that Socrates, who was a perfect pattern of all great qualities, should, as reports say, have had so ugly a face and body, so out of keeping with the beauty of his soul, seeing how deeply he was enamored of beauty, how infatuated by it! Nature did him an injustice."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 338
#Facts"Nor is there anything more remarkable in Socrates than that he found time, in his old age, to take lessons in dancing and the playing of instruments, and that he thought this time well spent. This same man was seen to stand at"
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 400
#Facts"'At Olympia, Milo is said to have stepped into the course carrying a live ox on his shoulders. Which then of the two would you prefer to have given to you—bodily strength like that, or intellectual strength like that of Pythagoras?"
Book & Page: Cicero, Selected works (Penguin) p.46
#Praise"Socrates, however, was busying himself about ethical matters and neglecting the world of nature as a whole, but seeking the universal in these ethical matters, and fixed thought for the first time on definitions; Plato accepted his teaching, but held that the problem applied not to sensible things but to entities of another kind – for this reason, that the common definition could not be a definition of any sensible thing, as they were always changing."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2221
#Analysis"But when Socrates was occupying himself with the excellence of character, and in connection with them became the first to raise the problem of universal definition, but Socrates did not make the universals or the definitions exist apart: they, however, gave them separate existence, and this was the kind of thing they called Ideas."
Book & Page: Aristotle pdf Ethics p2493
#Analysis"But Socrates moves close to the ground and, at a gentle and ordinary pace, discourses on the most useful subjects; and, when confronted with death and with the thorniest obstacles he could meet with, he follows the ordinary course of human life."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 314
#Analysis"Socrates asked Memnon* what virtue is. "There is,'replied Memnon, 'the virtue of a man and of a woman, of a magistrate and of a private citizen, of a child and of an old person." "This is fine!" exclaimed Socrates. 'We were looking for one virtue, and here are a swarm of them.' We put one question, and receive alive full in return."
Book & Page: Michael Montaigne 352
#Analysis