Men Quotes by Socrates

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

— Socrates

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

— Socrates

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

— Socrates

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

— Socrates

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

— Socrates

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

— Socrates

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.

— Socrates

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

— Socrates

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

— Socrates

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

— Socrates

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward…

— Socrates

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

— Socrates

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to…

— Socrates

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

— Socrates

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at…

— Socrates

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

— Socrates

It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your…

— Socrates

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make…

— Socrates

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and…

— Socrates

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and…

— Socrates

Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than…

— Socrates

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk…

— Socrates

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows…

— Socrates

...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall…

— Socrates

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded…

— Socrates

“Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there…

— Socrates

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know…

— Socrates

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your…

— Socrates

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and…

— Socrates

You too must be of good hope as regards death, gentlemen of the jury, and keep this one truth in mind, that…

— Socrates

Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from…

— Socrates

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent…

— Socrates

An honest man is always a child. [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]

— Socrates

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

— Socrates

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

— Socrates

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

— Socrates

No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training

— Socrates

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

— Socrates

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death.

— Socrates

Fear of women love more than hate the man.

— Socrates