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Socrates ( /ˈsɒkrətiːz/; Greek: Σωκράτης, Ancient Greek pronunciation: , Sōkrátēs; c. 469 BC – 399 BC) was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Many would claim that Plato's dialogues are the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity.

Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who also lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus. The latter remains a commonly used tool in a wide range of discussions, and is a type of pedagogy in which a series of questions are asked not only to draw individual answers, but also to encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand. It is Plato's Socrates that also made important and lasting contributions to the fields of epistemology and logic, and the influence of his ideas and approach remains strong in providing a foundation for much western philosophy that followed.

As Martin Cohen has put it, Plato, the idealist, offers "an idol, a master figure, for philosophy. A Saint, a prophet of the 'Sun-God', a teacher condemned for his teachings as a heretic."

소크라테스 (ko)
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
To find yourself, think for yourself.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
Know thyself.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. Essential Thinkers - Socrates (Barnes & Noble Collector's Library)
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.
Be as you wish to seem.
understanding a question is half an answer Essential Thinkers - Socrates (Barnes & Noble Collector's Library)
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Essential Thinkers - Socrates (Barnes & Noble Collector's Library)
Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.