All Quotes
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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.Socrates, from Plutarch, Of Banishment
Word is a shadow of a deed.Democritus, Fragment 145
As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.Hippocrates, Epidemics
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.Hippocrates, Precepts
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates, Law
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.Hippocrates, Law