Socrates Quotes
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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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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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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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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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The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.
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The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.
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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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Not I, but the city teaches.
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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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It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
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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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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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To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
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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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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
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She soars on her own wings.
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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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Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.