Quote #22
Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'
More from Socrates
- I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
- Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
- There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
- I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. (Note: This seems to Contradict much of what is said by Socrates in Crito.)
- All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Really, Ischomachus, I am disposed to ask: 'Does teaching consist in putting questions?' Indeed, the secret of your system has just this in…
- An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.