Quotes from Socrates

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.

The warm love has the coldest end.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

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.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit

Call no man unhappy until he is married

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

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

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

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world

It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

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.

Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.

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

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

If a man would move the world, he must first move himself.

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.

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

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, "How many things I have no need of!"