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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 state will only ever be a half of itself.”

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Socrates in Plato's Republic talking about women lacking rights. 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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“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.”

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As reported by Charles Simmons in A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged (North Wrentham, Mass. 1852), p. 103 http://books.google.de/books?id=YOAyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA103&dq=socrates. However, the original source of this statement is unknown.

Cf. Joseph Addison in The Spectator No. 574 Friday, July 30, 1714, p. 655 http://books.google.de/books?id=K1cdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA655&dq=socrates: In short, content is equivalent to wealth, and luxury to poverty; or, to give the thought a more agreeable turn, "content is natural wealth," says Socrates: to which I shall add, "luxury is artificial poverty.".
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“I do not mean to affirm that the description which I have given of the soul and her missions is exactly true—a man of sense ought hardly say that. But I do say that, inasmuch as the soul is shown to be immortal, he may venture to think, not improperly or unworthily, that something of this kind is true.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“And will he who is a true lover of wisdom, and is persuaded in like manner that only in the world below can he worthily enjoy her, still repine at death? Will he not depart with joy? Surely he will, my friend, if he be a true philosopher. …And if this be true, he would be very absurd, …if he were to fear death.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, "How many things I have no need of!"”

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Diogenes Laertius
Variante: How many things I can do without!

“Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are about to go away to the god whose ministers they are.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it; for they never come to a man together, and yet he who pursues either of them is generally compelled to take the other. They are two, and yet they grow together out of one head or stem.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“The soul, being a harmony, can never utter a note at variance with the tensions and relaxations and vibrations and other affections of the strings out of which she is composed; she can only follow, she cannot lead them? …And yet do we not now discover the soul to be doing the exact opposite—leading the elements of which she is believed to be composed; almost always opposing and coercing them in all sorts of ways throughout life… threatening and reprimanding the desires, passions, fears, as if talking to a thing which is not herself…”

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Plato, Phaedo

“Either I do not corrupt them, or I corrupt them unintentionally, so that on either view of the case you lie. If my offense is unintentional, the law has no cognizance of unintentional offenses; you ought to have taken me privately, and warned and admonished me; for if I had been better advised, I should have left off doing what I only did unintentionally — no doubt I should; whereas you hated to converse with me or teach me, but you indicted me in this court, which is the place not of instruction, but of punishment.”

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26a
Plato, Apology

“Now answer me this. Do you think that the same holds of horses? Do people in general improve them, whereas one particular person corrupts them or makes them worse? Or is it wholly the opposite: one particular person - or the very few who are horse trainers - is able to improve them, whereas the majority of people, if they have to do with horses and make use of them, make them worse? Isn't that true, Meletus, both of horses and of all other animals? Of course it is, whether you and Anytus say so or not. Indeed, our young people are surely in a very happy situation if only one person corrupts them, whereas all the rest benefit them.”

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25b
Plato, Apology

“I have said enough in answer to the charge of Meletus: any elaborate defense is unnecessary; but as I was saying before, I certainly have many enemies, and this is what will be my destruction if I am destroyed; of that I am certain; not Meletus, nor yet Anytus, but the envy and detraction of the world, which has been the death of many a good men, and will probably be the death of many more; there is no danger of my being the last of them.”

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28a
Plato, Apology

“If the immortal is also imperishable, the soul when attacked by death cannot perish; for the preceding argument shows that the soul will not admit of death, or even be dead, any more than three or the odd number will admit of the even…”

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Plato, Phaedo

“It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit. But you cannot see that, if you are careless; for it will not come of its own accord.”

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Memorabilia III.7.8
Xenophon

“I did not go where I could do no good to you or to myself; but where I could do the greatest good privately to everyone of you, thither I went, and sought to persuade every man among you that he must look to himself, and seek virtue and wisdom before he looks to his private interests, and look to the State before he looks to the interests of the State; and that this should be the order which he observes in all his actions. What shall be done to such a one? Doubtless some good thing…”

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36c–d
Plato, Apology

“I set to do you—each one of you, individually and in private—what I hold to be the greatest possible service. I tried to persuade each one of you to concern himself less with what he has than with what he is, so as to render himself as excellent and rational as possible.”

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36c6, as cited in Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life (1995), p. 90
Plato, Apology

“In the course of my life I have often had intimations in dreams "that I should make music." The same dream came to me sometimes in one form, and sometimes in another, but always saying the same or nearly the same words: Make and cultivate music, said the dream. And hitherto I imagined that this was only intended to exhort and encourage me in the study of philosophy, which has always been the pursuit of my life, and is the noblest and best of music.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“Absolute greatness will never be great and also small, but that greatness in us or in the concrete will never admit the small or admit of even being exceeded; instead of this, one of two things will happen—either the greater will fly and retire before the opposite, which is the less, or the advance of the less will cease to exist; but will not, if allowing or admitting smallness, be changed by that…nor can any other opposite which remains the same ever be or become its own opposite, but either passes away or perishes in the change.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“Whence come wars, and fighting, and factions? whence but from the body and the lusts of the body? For wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the sake and in service of the body; and in consequence of all these things, the time which ought to be given to philosophy is lost.”

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Plato, Phaedo

“We admitted that everything living is born of the dead. For if the soul existed before birth, and in coming to life and being born can be born only from death and dying, must she not after death continue to exist, since she has to be born again?”

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Plato, Phaedo

“I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed … from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.”

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Plato, Symposium, 175d
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“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

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Adapted from a passage in Schools of Hellas http://www.archive.org/stream/schoolsofhellasa008878mbp#page/n105/mode/2up, the posthumously published dissertation of Kenneth John Freeman (1907). The original passage was a paraphrase of the complaints directed against young people in ancient times. See the Quote Investigator article http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children-in-ancient-times/.
see Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service, Edited by Suzy Platt, 1989, number 195 http://www.bartleby.com/73/195.html. Last line: "Evidently, the quotation is spurious."
See also this Google Answers discussion http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=398104 about the topic.
Somewhat similar sentiments are in ( lines 961–985 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0241:card%3D961) of Aristophanes' The Clouds, a comedic play known for its caricature of Socrates. However, the lines are delivered by the character "Right" or "Just Discourse", not Socrates.
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