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At Socrates, the home of know how made e-z, you can find legal forms online. Search the complete library of human resource forms, contractor forms and business software. You can even find divorce papers online at Socrates.com.
Socrates products includes a wealth of legal and business forms, kits, guides and software for every personal and business situation. Everything from divorce, bankruptcy, payroll, accounting, marketing, sales, investing, financing, contractors, personal improvement and many more. Hundreds of subjects to help you achieve your business and personal goals
ABOUT Socrates THE COMPANY Socrates is for people who seek their own solutions to everyday business and personal problems and opportunities and who share a fundamental desire to save money and time. We offer, through retailers, marketing partners and our Web site, a broad selection of do-it-yourself forms, kits, software, guides, books and completion services that help consumers and small businesses solve everyday legal, financial and business management matters.
“Socrates delivers what users want, where they want it, in the form they want it in and for the right value. We’re focused on delivering the support and service individuals want to confidently handle more and more legal and business matters themselves. For our company, in the self help category and through all our products, Socrates symbolizes this quest for “know-how” but made "e-z” in every way, shape and form.”
—Chairman/CEO Bill Lederer
Dr. Arnold Goldstein, Barry Chesler and the late James Tooker founded Made E-Z in 1988 to meet the expanding needs of the office product superstores. By the late 1990s, Made E-Z Products (formerly E-Z Legal Forms Inc.) had grown into the world’s largest consumer-branded publisher of self-help business forms, legal forms, software, books, kits and certificates.
Early History: The assets of Made E-Z Products, Inc. were acquired on August 7, 2003, to form the foundation for Socrates Media, LLC. Immediately after the acquisition, the company was relocated to the Chicago headquarters with a new management team.
Socrates Today: Made E-Z was the first company to offer prepackaged legal forms that are valid in all fifty states. These products are regularly updated by attorneys to ensure accuracy and compliance with current law.
Products: From an initial line of 50 forms, we now offer thousands of products in the categories of small business, personal financial, business legal, personal legal, real estate, human resources and contractors.
Distribution: With dozens of office product, book and software wholesalers throughout the United States and recently Canada, our products are carried in about 5,000 retail locations including office superstores, bookstores, stationery retailers, print shops and catalog retailers.
ABOUT Socrates THE MAN :)
How is his name pronounced?
sŏk-ruh-tçz (Hear it pronounced at Merriam-Webster Online.)
When did he live?
circa 470 B.C. to 399 B.C.
Where was he born?
Athens, Greece
What is he famous for? Socrates is credited with laying the foundation for Western philosophical thought. He believed that through a dialogue of questions and answers you could eventually arrive at the truth, because probing questions would reveal unsupported assumptions and misconceptions in each response. This give-and-take became known as the “Socratic Method,” and he used it mostly to examine moral concepts.
What else did he believe?
He believed that philosophy was a proper pursuit for everyone and that self-knowledge was its starting point. The greatest source of confusion, he said, stemmed from our failure to realize how little we know about anything.
Who were some of his students?
Plato, Alcibiades, and Critias
Did he write any books?
Because Socrates believed that knowledge was a living, interactive thing and that arguing was superior to writing, he didn’t publish anything. Instead, much of what we know about him comes from the dialogues of Plato, his greatest pupil.
Why was he the “wisest man of Greece?”
When the Delphic oracle proclaimed that Socrates was the wisest man of Greece, Socrates responded, “’Tis because I alone of all the Greeks know that I know nothing.”
What is his most famous saying?
“The unexamined life is not worth living” is a paraphrase of a pronouncement he made while on trial. (You can read the complete quote in The Columbia World of Quotations.)
“Know thyself” is often attributed to Socrates, as well as a handful of other Greek philosophers. But according to the ancient historian Plutarch, “Gnothi se auton” (“Know Thyself”) was originally inscribed on Apollo’s Oracle of Delphi temple. (See what the Delphic oracle had to say about Socrates in the next question.)
What are some of his other quotes?
The following statements are attributed to Socrates:
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happy as possible.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
How did he die? Socrates calmly drank the hemlock poison he was given after he was convicted of, and sentenced to death for, several crimes, including atheism.
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