Quotes By Socrates

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.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.