Socrates Quotes
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Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
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It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
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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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I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.
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You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.
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I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.
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This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
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There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
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A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
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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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Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.
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There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.
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Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?
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What a lot of things I don't need.
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If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all.
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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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Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.
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It has been shown that to injure anyone is never just anywhere.