To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life… — 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
I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded… — Socrates Copy Share Image
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom… — Socrates Copy Share Image
One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from… — 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
