For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown;… — Socrates Copy Share Image
You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk… — Socrates Copy Share Image
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows… — Socrates Copy Share Image
You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“...[W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the approach of death… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“...{I]f everything that has some share of life were to die, and if after death the dead remained in that form and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good;… — Socrates Copy Share Image
You too must be of good hope as regards death, gentlemen of the jury, and keep this one truth in mind, that… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but for… — Socrates Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image
