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Quotes from Socrates

If you want to be wrong, then follow the masses.
~ Socrates
The purpose in life is to develop a strong character.
~ Socrates
Most excellent man, are you…not ashamed to care for the acquisition of wealth and for reputation and honor, when you neither care nor take thought for wisdom and truth and the perfection of your soul?
~ Socrates
Man, you don't speak well, if you believe that a man worth anything at all would give countervailing weight to the danger of life or death, or give consideration to anything but this when he acts: whether his action is just or unjust, the action of a good or of an evil man.
~ Socrates
Nuestra juventud de ahora ama el lujo. Tiene malos modales, desprecia la autoridad; le falta el respeto a sus mayores y le encanta charlar en lugar de trabajar; ya no se levanta cuando un adulto entra en la sala; contradice a sus padres, charla ante las visitas, engulle la comida y tiraniza a sus maestros
~ Socrates
Y dime, ¿es posible ser orgulloso cuando no se sabe nada, Lisis?
~ Socrates
We gain our first measure of intelligence when we first admit our own ignorance.
~ Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
~ Socrates
YAH (2022)? ?? ???? ??? ????? ????
~ Socrates
Then if it is impossible both for things unlike to be like and for like things to be unlike, then it's also impossible for there to be many things? For if there were many things, they would incur impossibilities.
~ Socrates
our souls also existed apart from the body before they took on human form, and they had intelligence.
~ Socrates
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing. - Socrates
~ Socrates
Pentru a înv??a s? tr?iasc? bine, cineva trebuie mai întâi s? înve?e s? moar? bine
~ Socrates
Yo no puedo enseñarle nada a nadie, tan sólo puedo incitarle a pensar
~ Socrates
Surely this is the objectionable kind of ignorance, to think one knows what one does not know? But in this, gentlemen, here also perhaps I am different from the general run of mankind, and if I should claim to be wiser than someone in something it would be in this, that as I do not know well enough about what happens in the house of Hades, so I do not think I know.
~ Socrates
An un-examined life is not worth living
~ Socrates
Gustavo Solivellas dice: "No puedo enseñar nada a nadie. Solo puedo hacerles pensar" (Sócrates)
~ Socrates
Criton - Le principe, que l'important n'est pas de vivre, mais de bien vivre.
~ Socrates
Critón, le debemos un gallo a Asclepio. ¿Te acordarás de pagar la deuda?
~ Socrates
YAH (2022)? Ik weet één ding, dat ik niets weet
~ Socrates
?ó là m?t câu h?i ph?c t?p, mà ??i ng??i thì ng?n ng?i.
~ Socrates
Gustavo Solivellas dice: "La verdadera Sabiduría está en reconocer la propia ignorancia" (Sócrates)
~ Socrates
Time is endless when it is purposeful.
~ Socrates
Damn son, where'd you find this?
~ Socrates