Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known. — Socrates Copy Share Image
To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who… — 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
