Quotes by Socrates

“Let him that would move the world, first move himself.”

“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”

“He is the richest who is content with the least”

“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”

“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 all means marry. If you get a good wife, youll be happy. If you get a bad one, youll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.”

“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”

“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.”

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

“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”

“An honest man is always a child.”

“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”

“Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth”

“The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.”

“Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.”

“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.”

“An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all”

“The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible”