Socrates Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

  Socrates

  Death, Wise, Fear

• Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

  Socrates

  Food, Beer, Men

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

• Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

  Socrates

  Life, Death, Cheer

• It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

  Socrates

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

• There is but one evil, ignorance.

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Evil, Religion

• He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Evil, Wickedness

• False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

  Socrates

  Evil, Soul, Language

• The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

  Socrates

  Writing, Evil, Soul

• I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

  Socrates

  Evil, Programming, Greater Good

• To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

  Socrates

  Death, Wise, Thinking

• The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

  Socrates

  Success, Ignorance, Evil

• The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

  Socrates

  Real, Danger In Life, Evil

• Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

  Socrates

  Death, Believe, Fate

• Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

  Socrates

  Men, Evil, Good Man

• One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

  Socrates

  Evil, World, May

• Nobody knows what death is,
  nor whether to man
  it is perchance the greatest of blessings,
  yet people fear it as if they surely knew
  it to be the worse of evils.

  Socrates

  Blessing, Men, People

• If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

  Socrates

  Evil, Want, Knows

• For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

  Socrates

  Real, Knowing, Evil

  "Apology". 29a - b. By Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett,

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