“Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,… — 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
What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in… — 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
