Socrates Quotes
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What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.
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She soars on her own wings.
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This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
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The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.
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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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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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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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Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
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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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The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.
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The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
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I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
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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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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.
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Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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My divine sign indicates the future to me.
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
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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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Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
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Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.