Socrates Quotes
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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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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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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If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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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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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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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
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Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
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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 rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
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I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
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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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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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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
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To harm another is to harm oneself.
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My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
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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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An honest man is always a child.