Socrates Quotes
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
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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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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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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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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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An honest man is always a child.
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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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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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You too must be of good hope as regards death, gentlemen of the jury, and keep this one truth in mind, that a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods. What has happened to me now has not happened of itself, but it is clear to me that it was better for me to die now and to escape from trouble. That is why my divine sign did not oppose me at any point. So I am certainly not angry with those who convicted me, or with my accusers. Of course that was not their purpose when they accused and convicted me, but they thought they were hurting me, and for this they deserve blame.