Socrates quotes

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Be as you wish to seem.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.