Socrates Quotes
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This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
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Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
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I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.
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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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To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god.
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The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
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What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.
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A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
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Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
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When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.
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Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?
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Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.
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Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.
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A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house.
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It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.
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Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.
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If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
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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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Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
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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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The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.