Socrates Quotes
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Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?
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What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.
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When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.
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This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
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Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.
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By all implies marry if you get a great wife-husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.
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If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
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She soars on her own wings.
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
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The examined life is the only life worth living.
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Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
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You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.
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Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
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If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.
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To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.
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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
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The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.