Socrates Quotes
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The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
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Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
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The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
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I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
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My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
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Laws are not made for the good.
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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To harm another is to harm oneself.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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An honest man is always a child.
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Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
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We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.
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Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.
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The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
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How many things are there which I do not want.