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Ian O’Shaughnessy

Quotes · Socrates

...o δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ...

“…the unexamined life is not the life of a human being...”

– Socrates, quoted in Plato’s Apologia 38a 5–6

From volume III of the file · Classical · 4th century BC

Themes: philosophy · wisdom & folly

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Aἰσχρὸν δὲ καὶ τὸ διὰ τὴν ἀμέλειαν γηρᾶναι, πρὶν ἰδεῖν ἑαυτὸν ποῖος ἂν κάλλιστος καὶ κράτιστος τῷ σώματι γένοιτο.

“It is a shame indeed for a man to grow old indifferently, without seeing the beauty and strength that his body can attain.”

– Socrates, quoted in Xenophon’s Memorabilia Book III, Ch. 12, v. 8