The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
- Socrates
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
- Socrates
Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Socrates
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
- Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
- Socrates
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
- Socrates
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.
- Socrates
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
- Socrates
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
- Socrates
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
- Socrates
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
- Socrates
Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!"
- Socrates
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
To find yourself, think for yourself.
- Socrates
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
- Socrates
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
