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“Il y a des hommes qui peuvent plus facilement compter leurs moutons que savoir qui sont leurs amis.”

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“Lorsque les communications étaient coupées en quelque point, ce qui arrive en campagne, et que nous devions rester sans manger, nul autre ne le valait en endurance pour supporter cette épreuve. En revanche, quand nous étions bien ravitaillés, il n'avait pas son pareil pour en profiter, notamment pour boire. Il n'y était pas porté, mais, si on le forçait, il buvait plus que tout le monde, et le plus étonnant, c'est que personne n'a vu Socrate ivre.”

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Éloge de Socrate par Alcibiade ivre ; à propos du comportement de Socrate soldat pendant l'expédition de Potidée.
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“Mais, pour autant que la lutte était dirigée contre l'esprit dionysien de l'art antérieur, nous reconnaissons en Socrate l'adversaire de Dionysos, le nouvel Orphée qui se lève contre Dionysos et, quoique certain d'être déchiré par les Ménades du tribunal athénien, force cependant le dieu tout-puissant à prendre la fuite; et celui-ci, comme au temps qu'il fuyait devant le roi d'Édonide Lycurgue, se réfugia dans les profondeurs de la mer, c'est-à-dire sous les flots mystiques d'un culte secret qui devait peu à peu envahir le monde entier.”

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Le socratisme comme conception opposée au dionysisme de la tragédie grecque. Nietzsche fait allusion au poète Orphée mort démembré par les Ménades adoratrices de Dionysos.

“Je me faisais du moins, tout en m'en allant, ces réflexions : « Voilà un homme qui est moins sage que moi. Il est possible en effet que nous ne sachions, ni l'autre, rien de beau ni de bon. Mais lui, il croit qu'il en sait, alors qu'il n'en sait pas, tandis que moi, tout de même que, en fait, je ne sais pas, pas davantage je ne crois que je sais! J'ai l'air, en tout cas, d'être plus sage que celui-là, au moins sur un petit point, celui-ci précisément : que ce que je ne savais pas, je ne croyais pas non plus le savoir! »”

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Apologie de Socrate, 21d. Socrate vérifie l'oracle de Delphes (qui avait déclaré que nul n'était plus sage que Socrate) en interrogeant un homme politique.
Chez Platon

“Je maintiens donc que Socrate est on ne peut plus pareil à ces silènes qui se dressent dans les ateliers de sculpteurs, et que les artisans représentent avec un syrinx ou un aulos à la main; si on les ouvre par le milieu, on s'aperçoit qu'ils contiennent en leur intérieur des figurines de dieux.”

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Éloge de Socrate par Alcibiade ivre. La comparaison avec les silènes revient plusieurs fois dans la suite de ses propos. Les discours de Socrate sont eux-mêmes comparés aux statuettes de silènes en 221d et suivants.

“On a souvent comparé Socrate et Jésus. Entre autres analogies, il est bien vrai qu'ils ont eu une influence historique immense, alors qu'ils ont exercé leur activité dans un espace et un temps minuscules par rapport à l'histoire du monde : une petite cité ou un tout petit pays, et qu'ils n'ont eu qu'un très petit nombre de disciples. Tous deux n'ont rien écrit, mais nous possédons sur eux des témoignages « oculaires » : sur Socrate, les Mémorables de Xénophon, les dialogues de Platon, sur Jésus, les Évangiles; et pourtant, il est très difficile pour nous de définir avec exactitude ce que furent le Jésus historique et le Socrate historique.”

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“Socrate mourant devint l'idéal nouveau, insoupçonné jusque-là, de la noble jeunesse grecque : avant tous, Platon, le type de l'adolescent hellénique, s'est prosterné devant cette image avec toute la passion de son âme rêveuse.”

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passion , jeunesse , âme

“Mais ou bien je ne suis pas un corrupteur, ou bien, si je suis un corrupteur, c'est sans le vouloir, de sorte que, dans l'un et l'autre cas, c'est une fausseté que tu dis! Or, si je corromps sans le vouloir, on n'a pas, d'après la loi, à traduire ici les auteurs de telles fautes, qui sont involontaires; mais c'est en particulier qu'on doit les prendre, pour les instruire en leur faisant des remontrances. En effet, c'est bien clair, il me suffira d'avoir été instruit pour cesser de faire ce qu'en vérité je fais sans le vouloir. Quant à toi, tu as évité de te mettre en rapport avec moi et de m'instruire, tu n'y as pas mis de bonne volonté; au contraire, tu me traduis ici, où c'est la loi de traduire ceux qui ont besoin d'être corrigés, mais non ceux qui ont besoin d'être instruits!”

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Apologie de Socrate, 26a. Socrate répond à Mélétos, l'un de ses accusateurs, qui lui reprochait de corrompre la jeunesse.
Chez Platon

sortie , rapports , volonté , faute

“Criton, dit-il, à Asclépios nous sommes redevables d'un coq! Vous autres, acquittez ma dette! n'y manquez pas!”

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Dernières paroles de Socrate dans le Phédon, 118a.
Chez Platon

“Employez votre temps à vous améliorer grâce aux écrits des autres, ainsi vous apprendrez facilement ce qui leur a demandé beaucoup de travail.”

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“Craindre la mort, ce n'est rien d'autre en effet, Juges, que de passer pour sage alors qu'on ne l'est point, que de passer en effet pour savoir ce que l'on ne sait pas. Car de la mort, nul n'a de savoir, pas même si ce n'est pas précisément pour l'homme le plus grand des biens; mais on la craint, comme si l'on savait parfaitement qu'il n'y a pas de plus grand mal! Et cela, comment n'y pas voir cette ignorance justement qui est répréhensible, celle qui consiste à s'imaginer savoir ce qu'on ne sait pas?”

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Apologie de Socrate, 29a-b.
Chez Platon

mort , hommes

Socrate: Citations en anglais

“The body is a source of endless trouble to us by reason of the mere requirement of food; and is also liable to diseases which overtake and impede us in the search after truth: and by filling us so full of loves, and lusts, and fears, and fancies, and idols, and every sort of folly, prevents our ever having, as people say, so much as a thought.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“Let a man be of good cheer about his soul, who has cast away the pleasures and ornaments of the body as alien to him, and rather hurtful in their effects, and has followed after the pleasures of knowledge in this life; who has adorned the soul in her own proper jewels, which are temperance, and justice, and courage, and nobility, and truth—in these arrayed she is ready to go on her journey to the world below, when her time comes. You, Simmias and Cebes, and all other men, will depart at some time or other. Me already, as the tragic poet would say, the voice of fate calls.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“If I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good to either you or to myself. …for the truth is that no man who goes to war with you or any other multitude, honestly struggling against the commission of unrighteouosness and wrong in the State, will save his life; he who will really fight for right, if he would live even for a little while, must have a private station and not a public one.”

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31e
Plato, Apology

“Either knowledge is not to be attained at all, or if at all, after death. For then, and not til then, the soul will be in herself alone and without the body.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“Upon the earth are animals and men, some in a middle region, others dwelling about the air as we dwell about the sea; others in islands which the air flows round, near the continent; and in a word, the air is used by them as the water and the sea are by us, and the ether is to them as the air is to us. Moreover, the temperament of their seasons is such that they have no disease, and live much longer than we do, and have sight and hearing and smell, and all the other senses, in far greater perfection, in the same degree that air is purer than water or the ether than air. Also they have temples and sacred places in which the gods really dwell, and they hear their voices and receive their answers and are conscious of them and hold converse with them, and they see the sun, moon, and stars as they really are, and their other blessedness is of a piece with this.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“It would be better for me… that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.”

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Gorgias, 482c
Plato, Gorgias

“The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.”

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38a
Variant translations:
(More closely) The unexamining life is not worth living for a human being
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
An unexamined life is not worth living.
The unexamined life is not the life for man.
Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
Plato, Apology

“He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.”

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Phaedo
Plato, Phaedo

“In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.”

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Phaedrus
Plato, Phaedrus

“By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful. For this appears to me the safest answer to give both to myself and others; and adhering to this, I think that I shall never fall, but that it is a safe answer both for me and any one else to give — that by means of beauty beautiful things become beautiful.”

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Phaedo
Plato, Phaedo

“We shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good, for one of two things: either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and a migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if you suppose there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by the site of dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain. For if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man, I will not say a private man, but even the great king, will not find many such days or nights, when compared with the others. Now, if death is like this, I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night. But if death is the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead are, what good, O friends and judges, can be greater than this? …Above all, I shall be able to continue my search into true and false knowledge; as in this world, so also in that; I shall find out who is wise, and who pretends to be wise, and is not. …What infinite delight would there be in conversing with them and asking them questions! For in that world they would not put a man to death for this; certainly not. For besides being happier in that world than in this, they will be immortal, if what is said is true.”

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40c–41c
Plato, Apology

“You want to have proven to you that the soul is imperishable and immortal, and you think that the philosopher who is confident in death has but a vain and foolish confidence, if he thinks that he will fare better than one who has led another sort of life, in the world below, unless he can prove this; and you say that the strength and divinity of the soul, and of her existence prior to our becoming men, does not necessarily imply her immortality. …For any man, who is not devoid of natural feeling, has reason to fear, if he has no knowledge or proof of the soul's immortality. That is what I suppose you to say, Cebes, which I designedly repeat, in order that nothing may escape us…”

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Plato, Phaedo

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”

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No findable citation to Socrates. First appears in this form in the 1990s, such as in the Douglas Bradley article "Lighting a Flame in the Kickapoo Valley", Wisconsin Ideas, UW System, 1994. It appears to be a variant on a statement from Plutarch in On Listening to Lectures: "The correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting — no more — and then it motivates one towards originality and instills the desire for truth." Alternate translation, from the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1927 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_auditu*.html: "For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth." Often quoted as, "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." Variants of the quote that are correctly attributed to Plutarch but which substitute "education" for "the mind" date back at least as far as the 1960s, as seen in the 1968 book Vision and Image by James Johnson Sweeney, p. 119 http://books.google.com/books?id=d58FAAAAMAAJ&q=plutarch#search_anchor.
Variants with "education" are also sometimes misattributed to William Butler Yeats, as in the 1993 book The Harper Book of Quotations (third edition), p. 138 http://books.google.com/books?id=THl7kUfSqCUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA138#v=onepage&q&f=false. In the previously-mentioned Vision and Image, the misquote of Plutarch involving "education" (which has exactly the same wording as the quote attributed to Yeats in The Harper Book of Quotations) is immediately preceded by a different quote from Yeats ("Culture does not consist in acquiring opinions but in getting rid of them"), so it's possible this is the source of the confusion—see the snippets here http://books.google.com/books?id=d58FAAAAMAAJ&q=yeats+culture#search_anchor and here http://books.google.com/books?id=d58FAAAAMAAJ&q=%22getting+rid+of+them%22#search_anchor.
The misattribution may also be related to a statement about Plato's views made by Benjamin Jowett in the introduction to his translation of Plato's Republic (in which all the main ideas were attributed to Socrates, as in all of Plato's works), on p. cci http://books.google.com/books?id=Cg_QX4yoOSQC&pg=PR201#v=onepage&q&f=false of the third edition (1888): "Education is represented by him, not as the filling of a vessel, but as the turning the eye of the soul towards the light." Jowett seems to be loosely paraphrasing a statement Plato attributes to Socrates in a dialogue with Glaucon, in sections 518b http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D7%3Asection%3D518b– 518c http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D7%3Asection%3D518c of book 7 of The Republic, where Socrates says: "education is not in reality what some people proclaim it to be in their professions. What they aver is that they can put true knowledge into a soul that does not possess it, as if they were inserting vision into blind eyes … But our present argument indicates that the true analogy for this indwelling power in the soul and the instrument whereby each of us apprehends is that of an eye that could not be converted to the light from the darkness except by turning the whole body."
Further discussion of the history of this quote can be found in this entry http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/28/mind-fire/ from the "Quote Investigator" website.
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“I realized that it was not by wisdom that poets write their poetry, but by a kind of nature or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets; for these also say many beautiful things, but do not know anything of what they say.”

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22c
Plato, Apology

“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“He who is a philosopher or lover of learning, and is entirely pure at departing, is alone permitted to reach the gods. And this is the reason, Simmias and Cebes, why the true votaries of philosophy abstain from all fleshly lusts, and endure and refuse to give themselves up to them—not because they fear poverty or ruin of their families, like the lovers of money, and the world in general; nor like the lovers of power and honor, because they dread the dishonor or disgrace of evil deeds.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.”

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21d
Plato, Apology

“What is that the inherence of which, will render the body alive? [The soul. ] …Then whatever the soul possesses, to that she comes bearing life? …And is there an opposite to life? [Death. ] Then the soul, as she has been acknowledged, will never receive the opposite of what she brings. …And what do we call the principle which does not admit of death? [The immortal. ] And does the soul admit of death? [No. ] Then the soul is immortal?”

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Yes.
Plato, Phaedo

“I myself know nothing, except just a little, enough to extract an argument from another man who is wise and to receive it fairly.”

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Theaetetus, 161b
Plato, Theaetetus

“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”

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Theaetetus, 155d
Plato, Theaetetus

“Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.”

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Plato, Republic, 506c
Plato, Republic

“…do not courageous men endure death because they are afraid of yet greater evils? …Then all but philosophers are courageous only from fear, and because they are afraid; and yet that a man should be courageous from fear, and because he is a coward, is surely a strange thing.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“Someone will say: Yes, Socrates, but cannot you hold your tongue, and then you may go into a foreign city, and no one will interfere with you? Now I have great difficulty in making you understand my answer to this. For if I tell you that this would be a disobedience to a divine command, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious; and if I say that the greatest good of a man is daily to converse about virtue, and all that concerning which you hear me examining myself and others, and that the life which is unexamined is not worth living — that you are still less likely to believe.”

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37e–38a
Plato, Apology

“If any man could arrive at the exterior limit, or take the wings of a bird and fly upward, like a fish who puts his head out and sees the world, he would see a world beyond; and, if the nature of man could sustain this sight, he would acknowledge that this was the place of the true heaven and the true light and the true stars. For this earth, and the stones, and the entire region which surrounds us, are spoilt and corroded…”

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Plato, Phaedo

“He [Socrates] would say that the rest of the world lived to eat, while he himself ate to live.”

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Socrates II: xxiv http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=D.+L.+2.5.24&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0258#note-link18. Original Greek: ἔλεγέ τε τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους ἀνθρώπους ζῆν ἵν᾽ ἐσθίοιεν: αὐτὸς δὲ ἐσθίειν ἵνα ζῴη.
Diogenes Laertius

“If we are to use women for the same things as the men, we must also teach them the same things.”

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Socrates, as quoted by Bettany Hughes: "Feminism started with the Buddha and Confucius 25 centuries ago" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11785181/Feminism-started-with-the-Buddha-and-Confucius-25-centuries-ago.html.
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