Socrates Quotes
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
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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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No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... It is a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.
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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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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
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Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
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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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Laws are not made for the good.
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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
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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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The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
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To harm another is to harm oneself.
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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.