Quotes Socrates

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

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the...

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for Go...

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence...

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is t...

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty...

"He is richest who is content with the least."...

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

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

"My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife...

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

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; the...

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little ...

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."...

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."...

"Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent ca...

"An unexamined life is not worth living."...

"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."...

"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men ...

"A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has b...

"Let him that would move the world first move himself."...

"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, ...

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance....

"To find yourself, think for yourself."...

"I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, a...