The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. — Socrates Copy Share Image
In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever. — 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
Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now… — 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
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. — 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
