Quotes Socrates

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional va...

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous...

An honest man is always a child....

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing....

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he w...

Be as you wish to seem....

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, conti...

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny....

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge...

Beware the barrenness of a busy life....

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy....

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become h...

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings....

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writin...

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect...

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate....

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at...

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is ...

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is...

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write...

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance....

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know not...

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity f...

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live....

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised un...