Socrates
quoted 175 times by 28 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Socrates the figure
Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
88 quoted · 74 reported · 13 carried
129 neutral 17 refuted 6 extended 7 endorsedin the voice of Socrates 52 , Critobulus 11 , Xenophon 9 , Ischomachus 7 , Strepsiades 7 , his accuser 5 , Alcibiades 4 , Hermogenes 4 , Disciple 3 , Glaucon 3
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in the voice of Xenophon
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Memorabilia Xenophon 30 neutral 5 refuted 35 citations · 137 passages
book 1 11 passages anchored here · book 2 34 passages anchored here · book 3 58 passages anchored here · book 4 34 passages anchored hereThe narrator reports that these sayings of Socrates kept his companions from impiety, injustice, and baseness, even in private, since they believed no deed could escape the gods.
For holding that it is good for anyone who means to do honourable work to have self-control, he made it clear to his companions, in the first place, that he had been assiduous in self-discipline;
book 4 ¶ -
in the voice of Socrates
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Republic Plato 13 neutral 5 refuted 2 extended 21 citations · 28 passages
book 1 4 passages anchored here · book 2 4 passages anchored here · book 5 4 passages anchored here · book 6 · book 7 6 passages anchored here · book 8 · book 9 5 passages anchored here · book 10 3 passages anchored hereDirect speech: 'I believe that involuntary homicide is a lesser fault than to mislead opinion about the honorable, the good, and the just.'
For, indeed, I believe that involuntary homicide is a lesser fault than to mislead opinion about the honorable, the good, and the just.
book 5 ¶ -
in the voice of Critobulus
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Economics Xenophon 17 neutral 17 citations · 52 passages
chapter 1 5 passages anchored here · chapter 2 2 passages anchored here · chapter 4 3 passages anchored here · chapter 5 · chapter 6 2 passages anchored here · chapter 20 28 passages anchored here · chapter 21 11 passages anchored hereCritobulus is directly reported as replying to Socrates.
But sometimes we come across persons possessed of knowledge and means whereby they can increase their estates if they work, and we find that they are unwilling to do so;
chapter 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Socrates
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Phaedo Plato 11 neutral 12 citations · 48 passages
Socrates' reflection on pleasure and pain is presented as his direct speech.
for he gave security that I would remain, but you must give security that I shall not remain when I die, but shall go away, so that Crito may bear it more easily, and may not be troubled when he sees my body being burnt or buried, or think I am undergoing terrible treatment, and may not say at the funeral that he is laying out Socrates, or following him to the grave, or burying him.
phaedo ¶ -
in the voice of Strepsiades
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Clouds Aristophanes 11 neutral 11 citations · 28 passages
Strepsiades directly explains his idea of drawing down and hiding the moon to avoid interest payments.
For what has come into your heads that you acted insolently toward the gods, and pried into the seat of the moon?
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in the voice of Socrates
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 5 neutral 2 refuted 1 extended 2 endorsed 10 citations · 17 passages
oration 3 12 passages anchored here · oration 43 · oration 54 · oration 55 · oration 60 · oration 66Socrates' answer to the question about the Persian king's happiness is reported as direct speech.
When someone asked Socrates—an old man at Athens, and a poor one, whom you too know by report, since he lived very many years ago—whether he considered the king of the Persians happy, he replied, "Perhaps he is happy";
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in the voice of Alcibiades
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Symposium Plato 9 neutral 9 citations · 12 passages
Both Alcibiades' surprised exclamation and Socrates' reply are given as direct speech
The way I shall take, gentlemen, in my praise of Socrates, is by similitudes.
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in the voice of Cicero
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 3 extended 6 citations
Reports Socrates' discourse and conduct on the last day of his life regarding the soul.
And so he relates that, just as swans — who are dedicated to Apollo not without cause, but because they seem to have from him a power of divination, by which, foreseeing what good there is in death, they die with song and pleasure — so all good and learned men ought to do.
book 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Hermogenes
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Apology Xenophon 4 neutral 2 refuted 6 citations · 12 passages
Hermogenes reports both his question and Socrates' answer about preparing a defense.
That Socrates had at first replied, Why, do I not seem to you to have spent my whole life in preparing to defend myself?
apology ¶ -
in the voice of Charmides
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Symposium Xenophon 6 neutral 6 citations
Charmides directly teases Socrates about praising the dance teacher.
It looks to me, said Charmides, as if you were puffing the dancing-master.
chapter 2 ¶ -
in the voice of Socrates
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Meditations Marcus Aurelius 3 neutral 5 citations · 6 passages
Socrates' words explaining his refusal are directly reported as speech within the paragraph.
and what Socrates said to his companions, who were ashamed and drew back when they saw him so attired.
book eleven ¶ -
in the voice of Socrates
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Crito Plato 5 neutral 5 citations · 26 passages
Direct speech from Socrates opening the dialogue with a question to Crito
Do you therefore consider very carefully whether you agree and share in this opinion, and let us take as the the starting point of our discussion the assumption that 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.
crito ¶ -
in the voice of Seneca
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Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 neutral 5 citations
Corresponds to the citation of Socrates's saying about travel used as authority.
For they say that Socrates answered a certain man who complained that his travels had done him no good:
letter 104 ¶ -
in the voice of an imagined interlocutor
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Apology Plato 3 neutral 1 refuted 4 citations · 3 passages
This is an explicit imagined question directed at Socrates that structures the ensuing dialogue-like argument
Perhaps someone might say, Socrates, can you not go away from us and live quietly, without talking?
apology ¶ -
in the voice of the divine sign (daimonion)
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 2 neutral 1 endorsed 3 citations
A distinct reported causal/speech act involving Socrates's divine sign.
and to Socrates the divine sign was a cause not by not preventing, but by turning away, even if it did not urge on.
book 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Socrates
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On Benefits Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 2 neutral 1 endorsed 3 citations · 2 passages
Socrates's reply is presented as direct speech, affirming the worth of the gift and completing the dialogue exchange
1 When all were offering Socrates many gifts, each according to his means, Aeschines, a poor disciple, said:
book 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Socrates
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On the Happy Life Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 3 citations · 5 passages
The paragraph is explicitly introduced as what 'that famous Socrates' will say, followed by a directly quoted speech.
"Of nothing," says that famous Socrates, or someone else who has the same right and the same power against human affairs, "have I more firmly convinced myself than that I should not bend the conduct of my life to your opinions.
on the happy life ¶ -
Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 1 neutral 1 refuted 2 citations · 3 passages
The passage reports a habitual practice attributed to Socrates as a named historical example.
These also mostly disown qualities held in high esteem, as Socrates used to do.
book 4 ¶ -
in the voice of an objector
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On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 refuted 2 citations
Explicitly framed in quotation marks as a reported objection ('someone says').
"If Socrates," someone says, "was condemned unjustly, then he suffered injury.
ch. 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Wife of Socrates
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De Anima Tertullian 2 neutral 2 citations · 1 passage
Records the direct exchange between Socrates and his wife immediately after his condemnation.
So it was that, after the sentence, when his wife met him and cried out in womanly fashion, ‘You are unjustly condemned, Socrates!
de anima ¶ -
in the voice of Socrates
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De legendis gentilium libris Basil of Caesarea 1 endorsed 1 citation · 2 passages
The saying is introduced as 'the saying of Socrates is good' and then given as his own words.
when a rich man was greatly proud of his money, he said he would not admire him until he had also tested whether he knew how to use it.
de legendis gentilium libris ¶ -
in the voice of the speaker (Cicero)
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Lucullus Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation
Socrates's stance of non-knowledge regarding cosmology is directly attributed to him as a reported position.
Free, then, from such mockery is Socrates, free Aristo of Chios, who think that none of these things can be known.
book 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Cicero (narrator)
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On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 endorsed 1 citation
Explicitly marked as 'I hear saying' attributing a direct quotation to Socrates.
and Socrates, who reckons pleasure at no point, I hear saying that the seasoning of food is hunger, of drink, thirst.
book 2 ¶ -
in the voice of Scipio
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On the Commonwealth Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 endorsed 1 citation
Scipio explicitly reports a doctrine of Socrates as reported speech, which he endorses.
And on this account I am wont to judge Socrates the wiser, who laid aside all care of that kind, and said that what is inquired into concerning nature is either too great for human reason to attain, or has nothing at all to do with the life of men.
book 1 ¶ -
On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
Socrates is cited as having said enough about the abundance of virtue, invoked as philosophical authority
But to great men all things are always prosperous, if indeed enough has been said by our school and by the chief of philosophy, Socrates, concerning the rich plenty and abundance of virtue.
book 2 ¶ -
in the voice of The Larousse dictionary
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Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī 1 neutral 1 citation
Socrates' claim to a private satan is reported as his own repeated assertion, and the competing readings of it are reported as the sayings of unnamed parties.
( jīm ) It is stated in the Larousse dictionary that Socrates used to claim that he had a satan of his own who revealed to him his purposes and all the principles of his philosophy and his wisdom.
ch. 6 ¶ -
in the voice of Socrates
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On Anger Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 citation
This is an explicit direct quotation attributed to Socrates by name, addressed to his slave, used as a authoritative example.
This is why Socrates said to a slave:
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Apologeticum Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation
Quote event corresponding to the citation of Socrates' saying about a permitting demon.
It is a saying of Socrates:
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