The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Socrates

6 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but never know how to love with men.— filed under Art
O beloved Pan, and all ye other gods of this place, grant me to become beautiful in the inner man.— filed under Beauty
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.— filed under Judgment
Wit and Wisdom. A god out of a machine.— filed under Proverbs
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.— filed under Proverbs
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.— filed under Wisdom
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