All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates
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.
Socrates
Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannise their teachers.
Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates
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.
Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
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.
Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates
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.
Socrates
If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Socrates
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Socrates
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.
Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.
Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
