In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one… — Socrates Copy Share Image
My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves — Socrates Copy Share Image
If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one. — Socrates Copy Share Image
It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there… — Socrates Copy Share Image
In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown;… — Socrates Copy Share Image
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows… — Socrates Copy Share Image
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is… — Socrates Copy Share Image
May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure. — 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
