By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a… — 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
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Suppose... that you acquit me... Suppose that, in view of this, you said to me 'Socrates, on this occasion we shall disregard… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association… — 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
Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully.… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“By all means marry. If you get a good spouse you'll become happy, while if you get a bad one you'll become… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Perhaps someone may say 'But surely, Socrates, after you have left us you can spend the rest of your life in quietly… — Socrates Copy Share Image
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics. — 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
By all means, get married: if you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“...[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated with the body and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“...[T]hose who care about their souls and do not subordinate them to the body dissociate themselves firmly from these others and refuse… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of… — 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
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
