Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
SocratesI thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man: neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point: I do not think that I know what I do not know.
SocratesBe as you wish to seem.
SocratesHe is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
SocratesNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
SocratesBy all means get married, If you get a good wife you'll become happy; If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
SocratesI cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
SocratesChildren today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
SocratesVirtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.
SocratesI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance
SocratesLet him that would move the world, first move himself.
SocratesEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SocratesBy all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man.
SocratesSee one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
SocratesTo find yourself, think for yourself
SocratesAre you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
SocratesLiving well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SocratesI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SocratesThe soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
SocratesBeauty is a short-lived tyranny.
SocratesThe greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SocratesBe slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
SocratesNothing is to be preferred before justice.
SocratesWe too must endure and persevere in the inquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faintheartedness in searching for courage; which after all may, very likely, be endurance.
SocratesTrue knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates