“wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state” — socrates Copy Share Image
“…money and honour have no attraction for them; good men do not wish to be openly demanding payment for governing and so… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom… — 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
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“I did not care for the things that most people care about– making money, having a comfortable home, high military or civil… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.” — 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
