--- title: "3 Good men Quotes By Socrates" description: "3 Good men quotes by Socrates. Plus more from Socrates and more Good men sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dda/socrates-405_bad-man_bad-men-live-that-they-may-eat-and-drink_579915.jpg" --- > [Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/bad-men-live-that-they-may-eat-and-drink-whereas-good-men-eat-and/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dda/socrates-405_bad-man_bad-men-live-that-they-may-eat-and-drink_579915.jpg) > [In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/in-all-of-us-even-in-good-men-there-is-a-lawless-wild-beast-nature/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/socrates-405_beast_in-all-of-us-even-in-good-men-there-is-a_2407233.jpg) > [“Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/wealth-does-not-bring-about-excellence-but-excellence-makes-wealth/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0db/socrates-405_death_wealth-does-not-bring-about-excellence-b_3006209.jpg) ## Other authors on Good men - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edmund-burke-31567.jpg) Edmund Burke 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-men/edmund-burke/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-plato-75782.jpg) Plato 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-men/plato/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-theodore-roosevelt-90083.jpg) Theodore Roosevelt 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-men/theodore-roosevelt/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-men/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-milton-51960.jpg) John Milton 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-men/john-milton/) - [Aristotle 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-men/aristotle/) ## More by Socrates > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/by-all-means-marry-if-you-get-a-good-wife-you-ll-be-happy-if-you-get/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/falling-down-is-not-a-failure-failure-comes-when-you-stay-where-you/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/do-not-go-through-life-like-leaf-blown-from-here-to-there-believing/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/if-the-whole-world-depends-on-today-s-youth-i-can-t-see-the-world/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [“I only know, I know nothing”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/i-only-know-i-know-nothing/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/i-cannot-teach-anybody-anything-i-can-only-make-them-think/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/if-measure-and-symmetry-are-absent-from-any-composition-in-any-degree/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/marry-a-good-woman-and-be-happy-the-rest-of-your-life-or-marry-a-bad/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/for-the-fear-of-death-is-indeed-the-pretense-of-wisdom-and-not-real/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/there-is-no-difference-between-knowledge-and-temperance-for-he-who/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/besides-it-is-a-shame-to-let-yourself-grow-old-through-neglect-before/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/the-greatest-blessing-granted-to-mankind-come-by-way-of-madness-which/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/i-desire-only-to-know-the-truth-and-to-live-as-well-as-i-can-and-to/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/so-you-would-rather-suffer-an-injustice-than-do-an-injustice/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) > [The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/the-end-of-life-is-to-be-like-unto-god-and-the-soul-following-god/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-men/socrates/#itemlist", "name": "3 Good men Quotes By Socrates", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Socrates" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/bad-men-live-that-they-may-eat-and-drink-whereas-good-men-eat-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dda/socrates-405_bad-man_bad-men-live-that-they-may-eat-and-drink_579915.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dda/socrates-405_bad-man_bad-men-live-that-they-may-eat-and-drink_579915.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dda/socrates-405_bad-man_bad-men-live-that-they-may-eat-and-drink_579915.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.” — Socrates", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Socrates" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/in-all-of-us-even-in-good-men-there-is-a-lawless-wild-beast-nature/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/socrates-405_beast_in-all-of-us-even-in-good-men-there-is-a_2407233.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/socrates-405_beast_in-all-of-us-even-in-good-men-there-is-a_2407233.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/socrates-405_beast_in-all-of-us-even-in-good-men-there-is-a_2407233.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.” — Socrates", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Socrates" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/wealth-does-not-bring-about-excellence-but-excellence-makes-wealth/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0db/socrates-405_death_wealth-does-not-bring-about-excellence-b_3006209.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0db/socrates-405_death_wealth-does-not-bring-about-excellence-b_3006209.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0db/socrates-405_death_wealth-does-not-bring-about-excellence-b_3006209.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both…” — Socrates", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-men/socrates/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-men/socrates/", "name": "Good men Quotes by Socrates", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-men/socrates/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dda/socrates-405_bad-man_bad-men-live-that-they-may-eat-and-drink_579915.jpg" }, "description": "3 Good men quotes by Socrates. 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