If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Some people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down. — 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