Socrates Quotes
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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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The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.
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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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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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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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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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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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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
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Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
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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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To harm another is to harm oneself.
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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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An honest man is always a child.