For who is there but you? Who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep. — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost. — 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
When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at… — 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
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast… — 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
You too must be of good hope as regards death, gentlemen of the jury, and keep this one truth in mind, that… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows… — Socrates Copy Share Image
An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and… — 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
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than… — 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
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
