Socrates Proverb
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
SocratesBe as you wish to seem.
SocratesFor to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man. But men fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils.
SocratesThe 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.
SocratesI decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
SocratesFalse words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
SocratesHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SocratesThe poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
SocratesI only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
SocratesA system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
SocratesOur prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
SocratesCrito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
SocratesAll men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
SocratesThey are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
SocratesThe greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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.
SocratesEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SocratesI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance
SocratesVirtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.
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
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