Socrates Quotes
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The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.
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Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
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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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In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.
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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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I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
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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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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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Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
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Laws are not made for the good.
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My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
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The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
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To harm another is to harm oneself.
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An honest man is always a child.