Socrates Quotes
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Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.
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...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.
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I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
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All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.
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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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Not by wisdom do they poets make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
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I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing.
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By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.
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Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.
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One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
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How many things I can do without!
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In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
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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.