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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils. By Socrates Gentlemen Fear Death Greatest Oneself

Perhaps someone may say 'But surely, Socrates, after you have left us you can spend the rest of your life in quietly minding your own business.' This is the hardest thing of all to make some of you understand. If I say that this would be disobedience to God, and that is why I cannot 'mind my own business', you will not believe that I am serious. If on the other hand I tell you that to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the best thing that a man can do, and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living, you will be even less inclined to believe me. Nevertheless, that is how it is, gentlemen, as I maintain; though it is not easy to convince you of it. By Socrates Socrates Business Surely Left Spend

If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but for all time: and indeed it would seem now that it will be extremely dangerous to neglect it. If death were a release from everything, it would be a boon for the wicked. But since the soul is clearly immortal, it can have no escape or security from evil except by becoming as good and wise as it possibly can. For it takes nothing with it to the next world except its education and training: and these, we are told, are of supreme importance in helping or harming the newly dead at the very beginning of his journey there. By Socrates Time Soul Immortal Life Demands

For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is there not here conceit of knowledge, which is a disgraceful sort of ignorance? And this is the point in which, as I think, I am superior to men in general, and in which I might perhaps fancy myself wiser than other men, - that whereas I know but little of the world below, I do not suppose that I know: but I do know that injustice and disobedience to a better, whether God or man, is evil and dishonorable, and I will never fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain evil. By Socrates Wisdom Greatest Death Fear Evil

Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude. By Socrates Virtue Pleasures Renders Permanent Appetite

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be ... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes ... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men. By Socrates Educated Call Day Men Hold

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. By Socrates Married Case Mate Happy Philosophical

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know. By Socrates Fancy Wiser Man Good Great

Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another. By Socrates Pleasure Good Antiphon Horse Dog

In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. By Socrates Principles Lead Pleasure Excellence Ruling

...I do not think that it is right for a man to appeal to the jury or to get himself acquitted by doing so; he ought to inform them of the facts and convince them by argument. The jury does not sit to dispense justice as a favour, but to decide where justice lies; and the oath which they have sworn is not to show favour at their own discretion, but to return a just and lawful verdict... Therefore you must not expect me, gentlemen, to behave towards you in a way which I consider neither reputable nor moral nor consistent with my religious duty. By Socrates Jury Argument Man Appeal Acquitted

Now it is time that we are going, I to die and you to live; but which of us has the happier prospect is unknown to anyone but God By Socrates God Live Time Die Happier

There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world. By Socrates Soul Pleasures Adornments Good Knowledge

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded. By Socrates Quiet Taking Ionizing Persuaded Human

I was attached to this city by the god - though it seems a ridiculous thing to say - as upon a great and noble horse which was somewhat sluggish because of its size and needed to be stirred up by a kind of gadfly. It is to fulfill some such function that I believe the god has placed me in the city. I never cease to rouse each and every one of you, to persuade and reproach youall day long and everywhere I find myself in your company. By Socrates God Gadfly City Attached Ridiculous

Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant By Socrates Ignorance Truth People Including World

In the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always. By Socrates Love Acquisition Blessing Human Nature

Do we say that one must never willingly do wrong, or does it depend upon the circumstances? Is it true, as we have often agreed before, that there is no sense in which wrongdoing is good or honourable? Or have we jettisoned all our former convictions in these last few days? Can you and I at our age, Crito, have spent all these years in serious discussions without realizing that we were no better than a pair of children? Surely the truth is just what we have always said. Whatever the popular view is, and whether the alternative in pleasanter than the present one or even harder to bear, the fact remains that to do wrong is in every sense bad and dishonourable for the person who does it. By Socrates Circumstances Willingly Depend Wrong Sense

Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?'I might fairly reply to him, 'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any actionthat is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one. By Socrates Socrates Death Compunction Penalty Mistaken

And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry. By Socrates Kind Convex Due Colors Soul

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny? By Socrates Delphian Concern Ridiculous Inscription Curious

Is something good because the gods approve of it? Or do the gods approve of it because it is good? By Socrates Gods Approve Good

...[W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the approach of death and escapes unharmed and indestructible... [I]t is as certain as anything can be... that soul is immortal and imperishable, and that our souls will really exist in the next world. By Socrates Death Part Hen Man Dies

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. By Socrates Friend Possession Valuable Good Faithful

Do you know that the spectator is the last of the rings which, as I am saying, receive the power of the original magnet from one another? The rhapsode like yourself and the actor are intermediate links, and the poet himself is the first of them. Through all these the God sways the souls of men in any direction which he pleases, and makes one man hang down from another. Thus there is a vast chain of dancers and masters and undermasters of choruses, who are suspended, as if from the stone, at the side of the rings which hang down from the Muse. And every poet has some Muse from whom he is suspended, and by whom he is said to be possessed, which is nearly the Ion 5same thing; for he is taken hold of. By Socrates Receive Rings Muse Spectator Power

And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes. By Socrates Soul Man Good Cheer Jewels

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love. By Socrates Violent Motion Beauty Inspire Forms

O we have not choice but to agree that in each of us are found the same elements and characteristics as are found in the city? After all, where else could the city have got them from? By Socrates Found City Choice Agree Elements

In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing. By Socrates Darkness World Good Order Mind

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure. By Socrates True Virtue Sensuality Life World

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind. By Socrates Labor Pleasure Mind Man Inure

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. By Socrates Employed Idle

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms. By Socrates Terms Beginning Wisdom Definition

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. By Socrates Wars Desires Revolutions Battles Due

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible. By Socrates Hands Invisible Uninitiated Grasp Deny

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me. By Socrates Slanderers Hurt Hit

An unexamined life is a life of no account. By Socrates Account Life Unexamined

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor. By Socrates Neighbor Envious Person Grows Lean

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. By Socrates Promontory Mountain Sea River

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all. By Socrates Tame Saddler Saddle Horse Good

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones. By Socrates Envy Neighbors Envious Man Waxeth

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion. By Socrates Compassion Highest Realms Thought Impossible

And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and essential thing. And the care of the soul, my dear youth, has to be effected by the use of certain charms, and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul, and where temperance comes and stays, there health is speedily imparted, not only to the head, but to the whole body. By Socrates Soul Head Body Thing Begin

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. By Socrates Time Lives Specks Dust Falling

I thought that as I had failed in the contemplation of true existence, I ought to be careful that I did not lose the eye of my soul; as people may injure their bodily eye by observing and gazing on the sun during an eclipse, unless they take the precaution of looking at the image reflected in the water, or in some similar medium ... I was afraid that my soul might be blinded altogether if I looked at things with my eyes or tried by the help of my senses to apprehend them. And I thought that I had better had recourse to ideas, and seek in them truth in existence. I dare to say that the simile is not perfectfor I am far from admitting that he who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas, sees them only "through a glass darkly," any more than he who sees them in their working and effects. By Socrates Soul Eye Existence Thought Eclipse

I call that man idle who might be better employed. By Socrates Employed Call Man Idle

I honor and love you: but why do you who are citizens of the great and mighty nation care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor And reputation, and so little amount wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? Re you not ashamed of these? ... I do nothing but go about persuading you all, not to take thought for your persons and your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by more, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man. By Socrates Honor Amount Greatest Soul Reputation

Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality. By Socrates Fixity Humility Serenity Regularity Simplicity

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. By Socrates Alike Properties Soul Persuading Young

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime. By Socrates Fact Convinced Pure Knowledge Rid

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes. By Socrates Care People Mistakes

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men. By Socrates Love Necessity Born Men Things

Esteemed friend, citizen of Athens, the greatest city in the world, so outstanding in both intelligence and power, aren't you ashamed to care so much to make all the money you can, and to advance your reputation and prestigewhile for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your soul you have no care or worry? By Socrates Athens Care Esteemed Friend Citizen

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher. By Socrates Husband Wife Pleased Implies Marry

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. By Socrates Marry Wife Happy Philosopher Good

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. By Socrates Beauty Kind Bait Delight Allures

Thus such another will not easily come to you, men, but if you believe me, you will spare me; but perhaps you might possibly be offended, like the sleeping who are awakened, striking me, believing Anytus, you might easily kill, then the rest of your lives you might continue sleeping, unless the god caring for you should send you another. By Socrates Anytus Easily Sleeping Men Offended

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions. By Socrates Pleasures Pains Desires Fears Conditions

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. By Socrates Ordinary Death People Realize Apply

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. By Socrates Wisdom Beginning

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth. By Socrates Socrates Truth Advice Great Deal

The law presumably says that it is finest to keep as quiet as possible in misfortunes and not be irritated, since the good and bad in such things aren't plain, nor does taking it hard get one anywhere, not are any of the human things worthy of great seriousness ... One must accept the fall of the dice and settle one's affairs accordingly in whatever way argument declares would be best. One must not behave like children who have stumbled and who hold on to the hurt place and spend their time in crying out; rather one must always habituate the soul to turn as quickly as possible to curing and setting aright what has fallen and is sick, doing away with lament by medicine. By Socrates Things Irritated Plain Seriousness Law

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit. By Socrates Friendship Fruit Flattery Blossoms Vast

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand. By Socrates Understand Doctrine Whispered Secret Man

I'm wiser than that person. For it's likely that neither of us knows anything fine and good, but he thinks he knows something he doesn't know, whereas I, since I don't in fact know, don't think that I do either. At any rate, it seems that I'm wiser than he in just this one small way: that what I don't know, I don't think I know. By Socrates Wiser Person Good Fine Fact

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not. By Socrates Ome Respected Opinions People Entertain

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf. By Socrates Man Leaf Life Drop Dew

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces. By Socrates Replaces Hardest Task Lightest Hand

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period. By Socrates World Public Period Move Complete

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. By Socrates Knowledge Meaning True

The best seasoning for food in hunger; for drink, thirst. By Socrates Thirst Hunger Drink Seasoning Food

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it ... Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily. By Socrates Body Soul Pure Leaves Drags

'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts ... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth. By Socrates Wars Socrates Factions Fighting Hour

The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress. By Socrates Young People Today Age Reverence

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on. By Socrates Man Men Sleep Deal Directly

...{I]f everything that has some share of life were to die, and if after death the dead remained in that form and did not come to life again, would it not be quite inevitable that in the end everything should be dead and nothing alive?... [W]hat possible means could prevent their number from being exhausted by death? By Socrates Life Dead Die Alive Death

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. By Socrates Married Happy Philosopher Advice Find

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual. By Socrates Prefer Wealth Transitory Perpetual Knowledge

Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing. By Socrates Matter Present Taking Good Care

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil. By Socrates False Language Infects Evil Soul

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge. By Socrates True Knowledge Wisdom Lies Confession

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler. By Socrates Zeus Wrestler Swear Outstanding Runner

For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no one know whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is not this ignorance of a disgraceful sort, the ignorance which is the conceit that a man knows that he does not know? And in this respect only I believe myself to differ from men in general, and may perhaps claim to be wiser than they are: that whereas I know but little of the world below, I do not suppose that I know ... By Socrates Wisdom Pretense Greatest Fear Death

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone. By Socrates Justice Time True Champion Intends

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden. By Socrates Man Beauty Selfneglect Base Thing

The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that. By Socrates Thing

Would that the majority could inflict the greatest evils, for they would then be capable of the greatest good, and that would be fine, but now they cannot do either. They cannot make a man either wise or foolish, but they inflict things haphazardly. By Socrates Greatest Evils Good Fine Inflict

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. By Socrates Poetry Inspiration Decided Wisdom Enabled

...[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated with the body and cared for it and loved it, and has been so beguiled by the body and its passions and pleasures that nothing seems real to it but those physical things which can be touched and seen and eaten and drunk and used for sexual enjoyment; and if it is accustomed to hate and fear and avoid what is invisible and hidden from our eyes, but intelligible and comprehensible by philosophy - if the soul is in this state, do you think that it will escape independent and uncontaminated? By Socrates Soul Body Impure Enjoyment Eyes

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? By Socrates Prestige Soul Ashamed Caring Making

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto. By Socrates Worth Holding

Before you speak, think if what you intend to say catches in one of the three sieves:1. The sieve of truth2. The sieve of love3. The sieve of necessity By Socrates Sieve Speak Intend Catches Sieves

When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery. By Socrates Young Expectations Believed Unfold Orderly

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher By Socrates Marry Woman Life Good Happy

Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use - that is our good use - of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right? By Socrates Good Happy Things Fortune Plausible

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness. By Socrates Obscurity Discernment Darkness Dispelled Augmenting

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. By Socrates Children Tyrants Today Parents Gobble

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. By Socrates Remember Permanent Human Condition Misfortune

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods. By Socrates Death Good Hope Face Gods

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty. By Socrates Improve Difficulty Men Writings Attaining

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things. By Socrates God Middle End Beginning Things

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. By Socrates God End Life Soul

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing. By Socrates Living Thing Beautifully Justly

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. By Socrates Luxury Love Children Manners Contempt

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. By Socrates Illusion True System Morality Based

Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils. By Socrates Blessings Evils Death Man Perchance

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? By Socrates Wise Friends Fear Death Greatest

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. By Socrates Images Truth Literally Shadows

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself. By Socrates Teach Knowledge Fashion Person Teaching

Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers. By Socrates Intelligent Average People Experiences Individuals

And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls. By Socrates Richer Virtue Balance Falls Grow

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom. By Socrates Knowing Wisdom Thyself Height

...[B]y observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether... [like] when [people] watch and study an eclipse of the sun; they really do sometimes injure their eyes, unless they study its reflection in water or some other medium. By Socrates Altogether Eyes Observing Objects Comprehend

Could I climb the highest place in Athens, I would lift up my voice and proclaim, Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and talk so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all? By Socrates Athens Fellow Proclaim Citizens Wealth

One thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover. By Socrates Act Braver Discover Thing Ready

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. By Socrates Contented

You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong. By Socrates Sir Death Actions Wrong Man

It is only in death that we are truly cured of the 'sickness' of life. By Socrates Sickness Life Death Cured

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. By Socrates Put Walls People Cares Break

It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit. By Socrates Limit Disgrace Grow Sheer Carelessness

Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. By Socrates Heart Return Employ Writings Time

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one. By Socrates Give Soul Beauty Outward Man

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul, and may the outward and the inner man be at one. By Socrates Pan Beloved Place Give Soul

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate. By Socrates Temperance Temperate Difference Knowledge Good

If at first you don't succeed, avoid skydiving. By Socrates Succeed Avoid Skydiving

Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies. By Socrates Body Corporeal Accepting Certifies Pleasure

And in knowing that you know nothing makes you the smartest of all. By Socrates Knowing Makes Smartest

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. By Socrates True Knowledge Exists Knowing

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. By Socrates Love Friends Bare Compliments Giving

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government. By Socrates Learned Meanest Government Man Undertakes

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live. By Socrates Eat Rest World Lives Live

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons? By Socrates Persons Imagine City Continue Exist

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it. By Socrates Breathe Wisdom Insight Badly

If you would seek health, look first to the spine. By Socrates Health Spine Seek

Is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage, temperance or justice. And is not all true virtue the companion of wisdom, no matter what fears or pleasures or other similar goods or evils may or may not attend her? But the virtue which is made up of these goods, when they are severed from wisdom and exchanged with one another, is a shadow of virtue only, nor is there any freedom or health or truth in her; but in the true exchange there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself, are a purgation of them. By Socrates Wisdom True Exchange Courage Justice

...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech in the first words that occur to me, confident as I am in the justice of my cause; and I do not want any of you to expect anything different. By Socrates Gentlemen Rom Truth Language Hear

If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason. By Socrates Neighbour Similar War Animals Path

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know ... By Socrates Fear Avoid Things

I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him, saying: O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this? By Socrates Greatest Athens Philosophy Exhorting Manner

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. By Socrates Beware Life Barrenness Busy

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles. By Socrates Poets Make Compose Oracles Wisdom

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows. By Socrates Arrived Die Live Hour Departure

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment] By Socrates Greek Banishment Athenian Plutarch World

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny By Socrates Beauty Tyranny Shortlived

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth. By Socrates Lies Murder Truth Greatest Kill

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding. By Socrates Death Yielding Yield Man Contrary

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses. By Socrates Masses Wrong Follow

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty. By Socrates Wisdom Poverty Adorneth Riches Casteth

The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder. By Socrates Wisdom Spirit Bad Leads Good

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. By Socrates Man Woman Superior Made Equal

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. By Socrates Madness Gift Greatest Blessing Granted

Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ... By Socrates Admitting Knowledge Ignorance Step Acquiring

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. By Socrates Lost Slander Loser Debate Tool

Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds. By Socrates Thy Affections Deeds Esteemed Words

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate. By Socrates Ebb Calm End Hate Greatest

Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul? By Socrates Reputation Wealth Truth Soul Ashamed

Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves. By Socrates Body Negligent Shame Grow Neglect

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods. By Socrates Gods Poets Interpreters

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self. By Socrates Sudden Grieve Acting Returned True

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. By Socrates Terms Beginning Wisdom Definition

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior ... because the battles we fight are on the inside By Socrates Warrior Peaceful Call Inside Battles

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve. By Socrates Swans Score Foreknowledge Divining Infinitely

Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man. By Socrates Man Sphere Life Things Long

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. By Socrates Communities Greatest Admirable Form Wisdom

Smart people learn from everything and everyone,Average people from their experiences,Stupid people already have all the answers. By Socrates People Smart Answers Learn Everyoneaverage

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men. By Socrates Thou Sophists Men Continuous Delight

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you. By Socrates Greater Power Deigns Serve Honor

Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible. By Socrates City Make Happy Purpose Founding

It is not living that matters, but living rightly. By Socrates Matters Rightly Living

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house. By Socrates Carefully Practice Philosophy Bad Thing

Athenian men, I respect and love you,but I shall obey the god rather than you ... By Socrates Athenian Men Respect Love Youbut

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise. By Socrates Mankind People Wise Fools Made

...[T]hose who care about their souls and do not subordinate them to the body dissociate themselves firmly from these others and refuse to accompany them on their haphazard journey; and, believing that it is wrong to oppose philosophy with her offer of liberation and purification, they turn and follow her wherever she leads... By Socrates Hose Journey Believing Purification Leads

For each of them, men, is able, going into each of the cities, to persuade the young-who can associate with whomever of their own citizens they wish to for free-they persuade these young men to leave off their associations with the latter, and to associate with themselves instead, and to give them money and acknowledge gratitude besides. By Socrates Associate Men Persuade Cities Youngwho

And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows By Socrates God Lives Death

I am quite ready to acknowledge ... that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead. By Socrates Good Acknowledge Death Matters Ready

There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me. By Socrates Great Accusers Years Age Adolescents

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. By Socrates Education Flame Vessel Kindling Filling

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom. By Socrates Wisdom Thyself Beginning

My friend ... care for your psyche ... know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves -Socrates By Socrates Friend Socrates Care Psyche Thyself

...[W]e must not let it enter our minds that there may be no validity in argument. On the contrary we should recognize that we ourselves are still intellectual invalids; but that we must brace ourselves and do our best to become healthy... No greater misfortune could happen to anyone than that of developing a dislike for argument. By Socrates Argument Enter Minds Validity Invalids

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world. By Socrates Good Die World Lived True

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world. By Socrates Knowing World Smartest Man

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally... By Socrates Intentionally Convinced Wrong

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change. By Socrates Extremely Change Ignorant Intelligent Resist

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible. By Socrates Easiest Discredit Prepare Oneself Good

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do. By Socrates Law Purpose Juryman Office Give

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another. By Socrates Refute Prefer Refuted Greater Good

...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers; because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the heavens... and everything below the earth... must be an atheist. By Socrates Hese People Accusers Matters Dangerous

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you. By Socrates Fool Makes Smarter

We shall be better, braver, and more active if we believe it right to look for what we don't know. By Socrates Braver Active

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house By Socrates House Disorderly Mob Army Heap

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half By Socrates Half Man Live Long Spend

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom. By Socrates Ignorance Wisdom Bad Healed

Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place. By Socrates Blessing Things Told Place Reflect

To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him. By Socrates Father Hard Find Found Impossible

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. By Socrates Training Man Amateur Matter Physical

My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth. By Socrates Truth Plainness Speech Makes Hate

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit. By Socrates Flattery Show Fruit Friendship

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep. By Socrates Men Nature Sleep Good Lawless

In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable. By Socrates Deficient Knowledgeable Investigation Service God

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. By Socrates Contentment Wealth Luxury Poverty Natural

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person. By Socrates Greece Person Cure Diseases Remains

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman. By Socrates Muses Believing Poet Perfection Madman

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection. By Socrates Human Collective Perfection Perfect Put

A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come. By Socrates Real Longlasting Man Preserves Integrity

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth By Socrates Truth Angry

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves. By Socrates Souls Alphabet Create Forgetfulness Learners

Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn. By Socrates Listen Slanderer Goodwill Turn Talebearer

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul By Socrates Soul Misuse Language Induces Evil

All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word. By Socrates Earth Sail Wisdom World Tiny

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease. By Socrates Silent Discord Cease

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. By Socrates Celibacy Repent Marriage Man

What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them? By Socrates People Happening Young Elders Parents

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty. By Socrates Adorn Patience Sought Body Wisdom

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind. By Socrates Slavishly Mind Free Soul Pursue

Life without enquiry is not worth living. By Socrates Life Living Enquiry Worth

The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all ... all enquiry and all learning is but recollection. By Socrates World Immortal Times Exist Soul

How many things are there which I do not want. By Socrates Things

He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is an incorrigible fool. By Socrates Fool Incorrigible

The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not. By Socrates Blowing Wind Cold

We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us?The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him. By Socrates Life Truth Body Approach Depart

Death offers mankind a full view of truth. By Socrates Death Truth Offers Mankind Full

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. By Socrates Death Blessings Greatest Human

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life. By Socrates Death Life Real Danger Living

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him. By Socrates Life Death Wise Man Seeks

It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death. By Socrates Death Difficult Avoid Gentlemen Jury

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost. By Socrates Contrive Cost Man Trial Avoid

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods. By Socrates Death Gods Good Man Harmed

Happiness is unrepented pleasure. By Socrates Happiness Pleasure Unrepented

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives. By Socrates Earth Man Lives Rise Top

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. By Socrates Fame Deeds Perfume Heroic

Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul. By Socrates Soul Head Body Attempt Cure

There is but one evil, ignorance. By Socrates Ignorance Evil

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it By Socrates Marry Case Regret

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence ... By Socrates Oneself Magnificence Greater Defeat

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right. By Socrates Live Counts

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil. By Socrates Living Dead Evil Good Man

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form. By Socrates Mirror Heart Person Form

Let him who would move the world first move himself. By Socrates Move World

He who would change the world should first change himself. By Socrates Change World

It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one. By Socrates Change Opinion Persist Wrong

Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure By Socrates Pleasure Philebus Delight Contend Memory

Be true to thine own self By Socrates True Thine

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil By Socrates Evil

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition ... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over. By Socrates Composition Symmetry Degree Ruin Measure

Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue Socrates in The Apology. By Socrates Apology Socrates Man Greatest Privilege

Virtue is the beauty of the soul. By Socrates Virtue Soul Beauty

Virtue does not come from wealth, but ... wealth, and every other good thing which men have ... comes from virtue. By Socrates Wealth Virtue Good Thing Men

The warm love has the coldest end. By Socrates End Warm Love Coldest

For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles. By Socrates Thing Senses State Oracles Poet

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all. By Socrates Conscious Wise

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly. By Socrates Unwillingly Corrupt Young

Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself. By Socrates Wrong Convinced

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle. By Socrates Bridle Man Make Safe Wealth

No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training By Socrates Training Man Amateur Matter Physical

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. By Socrates Eat Drink Bad Men Live

Fear of women love more than hate the man. By Socrates Fear Man Women Love Hate

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. By Socrates Actions Faults Thy Faithful Praise

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? By Socrates Greatest Reputation Soul Ashamed Heaping

So I withdrew and thought to myself: 'I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know; so I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know. By Socrates Wiser Man Worthwhile Extent Withdrew

The hottest love has the coldest end. By Socrates End Hottest Love Coldest

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. By Socrates Minds Discuss Strong Ideas Average

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world. By Socrates Athens Greece Citizen World

Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car? By Socrates Prestige Car Ashamed Concerned Making

When our feet hurt, we hurt all over. By Socrates Hurt Feet

Envy is the ulcer of the soul. By Socrates Envy Soul Ulcer

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead. By Socrates Dead Good Hope Remaining

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods. By Socrates Creation Gods Man Immortality Brings

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. By Socrates Wheat Qualified Statesman Ignorant Problem

...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away... By Socrates Guardpost Put Sort Release Run

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue. By Socrates Exercise Fatigue Till Mind Feels

And a thing is not seen because it is visible, but conversely, visible because it is seen; nor is a thing led because it is in the state of being led, or carried because it is in the state of being carried, but the converse of this. And now I think, Euthyphro, that my meaning will be intelligible; and my meaning is, that any state of action or passion implies previous action or passion. It does not become because it is becoming, but it is in a state of becoming because it becomes; neither does it suffer because it is in a state of suffering, but it is in a state of suffering because it suffers. Do you not agree? By Socrates State Thing Visible Led Carried

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return. By Socrates Wrong Return Evil Requite Suffer

The examined life is the only life worth living. By Socrates Living Life Examined Worth

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it. By Socrates Line Crooked Straight Put

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all. By Socrates Education Obtained Money Worse

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. By Socrates Unbecoming Remember Speak

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will. By Socrates Trust Woman Nature Weeps Weep

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him. By Socrates Return Man Wrong Mistreat Matter

If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best - although my actions are controlled by Mind - would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression. By Socrates Mind True Expression Bones Sinews

What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be. By Socrates Screws Life Picture Head Supposed

The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls. By Socrates Reasons Incantations Cured Maladies Beautiful

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. By Socrates Dispute Cares Question Assertions Partisan

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. By Socrates Gain Good Reputation Endeavor Desire

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. By Socrates Employ Time Improving Men Writings

There is no illness of the body except for the mind By Socrates Mind Illness Body

...[I]n any inquiry you are likely to attain more nearly to knowledge of your object in proportion to the care and accuracy with which you have prepared yourself to understand that object in itself[.] By Socrates Object Inquiry Attain Knowledge Proportion

The Only Thing I Know For Sure Is That I Know Nothing At All, For Sure By Socrates Thing

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether. By Socrates Altogether Afraid Observing Objects Eyes

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. By Socrates Thee God Pray Beautiful

Well, then, let's not just trust the likelihood based on painting. By Socrates Painting Trust Likelihood Based

How many things I can do without! By Socrates Things

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. By Socrates Hate Deepest Desires Deadliest

I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence. By Socrates Dead Living Existence Confident Thing

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. By Socrates Years Youth World Depends Today

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. By Socrates Counsel Man Wisdom Keeping Tongue

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. By Socrates True Life Wisdom Realize Understand

The definition of terms is the beginning of wisdom. By Socrates Wisdom Definition Terms Beginning

I only know that I know nothing By Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder. By Socrates Wisdom Begins

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom. By Socrates Thing Wisdom Source

...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value. By Socrates God Eal Wisdom Property Human

Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom. By Socrates Wisdom Beginning

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks? By Socrates Pay Attention Majority

Wisdom is knowing how little we know. By Socrates Wisdom Knowing

The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing. By Socrates Greeks Oracle Ancient Wisest

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. By Socrates People Fed Learn Force

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance. By Socrates Wisdom Ignorance True Recognizing

Wisdom is knowing you know nothing By Socrates Wisdom Knowing

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know By Socrates Wisdom Knowing

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom. By Socrates Awareness Wisdom Ignorance Beginning

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. By Socrates True Wisdom Knowing

She soars on her own wings. By Socrates Wings Soars

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. By Socrates Modest Temperate Prudent Childhood Youth

All I know is that I do not know anything By Socrates

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. By Socrates Told Life Leaf Blown Believing

Human nature will not easily find a better helper than eros By Socrates Human Eros Nature Easily Find

To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it By Socrates Illbreeding Words Phrases Easygoing Manner

I know what I do not know. By Socrates

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. By Socrates Fear Reverence Wider Extension

My divine sign indicates the future to me. By Socrates Divine Sign Future

May the inward and outward man be as one. By Socrates Outward Man

A multitude of books distracts the mind. By Socrates Mind Multitude Books Distracts

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better. By Socrates Live Seeking

Thou should eat to live; not live to eat. By Socrates Thou Eat Live

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience. By Socrates Conscience Live Seeking Agreeably Clear

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. By Socrates Live Honest Man Politician

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile? By Socrates Hostile Ridiculous Friendly Clever

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible. By Socrates Young Begin Pay Attention Make

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without ... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things. By Socrates Lived Long Learn God Things

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one By Socrates Suffer Injustice Commit

Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding? By Socrates Ancestor Understanding Philosopher Failed Discover

How many things can I do without? By Socrates Things

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself. By Socrates Greatest Mysteries Man

An unconsidered life is not one worth living. By Socrates Living Unconsidered Life Worth

An honest man is always a child. By Socrates Child Honest Man

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all By Socrates True Good

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. By Socrates Shortcut Nearest Glory Strive Thought

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth By Socrates Wealth Wars Fought Acquisition

It was far too cold. The second I got out I had this incredible headache, I'm just not used to it. The last time I saw snow was years and years ago. By Socrates Cold Years Headache Incredible Ago

Scio me nihil scire" - I know that I know nothing By Socrates Scio Scire Nihil

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge By Socrates Knowledge Inside Real

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise. By Socrates Silence Melody Noise Profound Hear

My belief is that to have no wants is divine. By Socrates Divine Belief

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know. By Socrates Man Wiser Ignorance Knowledge Boast

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact. By Socrates Soul Body Accepts Contact Practice

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. By Socrates Eat Drink Worthless People Live

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God. By Socrates God Depart Die Living Time

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. By Socrates Gods Fewest Nearest

Bad people live that they may eat and drink, whereas good people eat and drink that they may live. By Socrates Eat Drink Bad People Live

The universe really is motion & nothing else. By Socrates Motion Universe

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know. By Socrates Authority Rests Solely Knowing

I neither know nor think that I know By Socrates

The really important thing is not live, but to live well. By Socrates Live Important Thing

Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads. By Socrates Leads Follow Truth

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man. By Socrates Man Fellow Closer Gods Bringing

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods. By Socrates Gods Fewer Resemble

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance. By Socrates Ignorance Certainty

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods. By Socrates Gods Fewest Things Nearest

Through your rags I see your vanity. By Socrates Vanity Rags

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god . By Socrates God Give Public Matter Interest

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure. By Socrates Rich Endure Man Wise Wealth

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little. By Socrates Man Wise

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. By Socrates Enemy Man Courage Run Remains

All thinking begins with wondering By Socrates Wondering Thinking Begins

Two things greater than all the things are.On is love and the other is war. By Socrates War Things Greater Areon Love

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever. By Socrates Sort Danger Winning Ready

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance. By Socrates Soul Vice Ignorance Kinds Disease

All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that. By Socrates

Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me? By Socrates Resent Ass Kicks

They give you the semblance of success, I give you the reality ... By Socrates Give Success Reality Semblance

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. By Socrates Close Shadow Comic Tragic Lie

Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle. By Socrates Meet Nicer Battle Fighting Kind

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!' By Socrates Sale Things Mass

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior. By Socrates Equal Superior Woman Allowed Man

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. By Socrates Knowledge Ignorance Good Evil

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood. By Socrates Assignment Objects Truth Falsehood Assign

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. By Socrates Discourse Greater Evil Suffer Hate

For who is there but you? Who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others. By Socrates Good Gentleman Claim Man Power

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison. By Socrates Malice Poison Drinketh Greater Part

You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything. By Socrates Divine Great Nature Hears Present

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think By Socrates Teach Make

This is ... self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know. By Socrates Selfknowled Gefor Man

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others. By Socrates Human Excellence Highest Form Question

I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them. By Socrates Gods Higher Sense Accusers

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. By Socrates Content Nature Richest Wealth

To harm another is to harm oneself By Socrates Harm Oneself

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul. By Socrates Soul Body Cured Regard

Be as you wish to seem. By Socrates

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state By Socrates Blessing State Wealth Goodness Individual

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. By Socrates Life Valued Good Chiefly

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth. By Socrates Truth People Deceived Form Opinions

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His. By Socrates God Minds Poets Express

The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known. By Socrates Money Friend

Every action has its pleasures and its price. By Socrates Price Action Pleasures

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. By Socrates Spirit Make Full Force Carefully

Not I, but the city teaches. By Socrates Teaches City

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. By Socrates Angers

It has been shown that to injure anyone is never just anywhere. By Socrates Shown Injure

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant. By Socrates Friendship Continue Constant Slow Fall

Follow the argument wherever it leads. By Socrates Follow Leads Argument

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing By Socrates Thing

The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing. By Socrates Realize

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill. By Socrates World Goodwill Citizen Nationality

The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be. By Socrates Key Greatness Reality

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. By Socrates Wealth Man Proud Praised Employs

I only know, I know nothing By Socrates

By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful. By Socrates Beauty Beautiful Things

To find yourself, think for yourself. By Socrates Find

What I do not know, I do not think I know. By Socrates

The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul. By Socrates Skin Soul Years Lack Enthusiasm

Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance. By Socrates Supple Easy Dance Body Healthful

As for me, all I know is I know nothing. By Socrates

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. By Socrates Judge Courteously Wisely Soberly Impartially

If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division. By Socrates Species Division Misfortunes Mankind Cast

Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy. By Socrates Beauty Victory Secondary Joy Matters

Nothing is to be preferred before justice. By Socrates Justice Preferred

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. By Socrates Intelligent

To move the world we must move ourselves. By Socrates Move World

I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing. By Socrates Wise

I only know how little I know By Socrates

Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit ... By Socrates Hellene Heart Mind Spirit

The more I know, the more I know that I don't know. By Socrates

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show. By Socrates Flattery Armor Show Painted

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them. By Socrates Injustice World Return Evil Matter

We are what we think we are By Socrates

A Life without criticism and status is not a worth living. By Socrates Life Living Criticism Status Worth

Talk in order that I may see you. By Socrates Talk Order

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can. By Socrates Noblest Worship Make Good

Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ... By Socrates Thy Thine Affections Deeds Life

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly By Socrates Folly Evidence Demonstration Act Ignorance

He is the richest who is content with the least. By Socrates Richest Content

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. By Socrates Immortal Divine Souls Men Righteous

The more I learn, the less I realize I know. By Socrates Learn Realize

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. By Socrates Greatest Live Honor World Pretend

Pride divides the men, humility joins them. By Socrates Pride Men Humility Divides Joins

I know one thing, that I know nothing. By Socrates Thing

Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken. By Socrates Unspoken Plainer Spoken

What a lot of things I don't need. By Socrates Lot Things

Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god. By Socrates Hour Part Die Live God

Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary? By Socrates True Kind

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly. By Socrates Badly Great Deal

The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am. By Socrates Answer Gave Oracle Advantage

If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth. By