Socrates Quotes
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The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living.
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The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
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It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.
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Be true to thine own self.
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The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
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If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.
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False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear.
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Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher.
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Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.
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Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.
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There is but one evil, ignorance.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.
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I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.