Socrates Quotes
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Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
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How many things I can do without!
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
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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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Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
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It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
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The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellosbecause they do not study the whole person.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
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Wars, factions, and fighting, have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
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It was far too cold. The second I got out I had this incredible headache, I'm just not used to it. The last time I saw snow was years and years ago.
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It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
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I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing.
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One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.