Socrates Quotes
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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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The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.
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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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Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
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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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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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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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I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.
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Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
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Not I, but the city teaches.
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There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.
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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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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
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The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.
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Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.
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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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The examined life is the only life worth living.
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To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
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Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
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Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
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I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.
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Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure.