Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public… — 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
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Perhaps someone may say 'But surely, Socrates, after you have left us you can spend the rest of your life in quietly… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days… — 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
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
It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring… — Socrates Copy Share Image
God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with… — 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
