“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. — Socrates Copy Share Image
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening… — 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
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
