I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. — 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
