Socrates Quotes
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
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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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The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.
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What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?
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Not I, but the city teaches.
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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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Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.
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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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What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.
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Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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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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One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
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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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Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
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When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place.
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Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.