126 Quotations by Socrates
- 1. A multitude of books distracts the mind.
- 2. A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vu ...
- 3. An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
- 4. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
- 5. As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- 6. As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.
- 7. Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
- 8. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- 9. Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- 10. Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may ...
- 11. Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.
- 12. But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the bett ...
- 13. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become very happy; if you get a bad one, you wi ...
- 14. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a p ...
- 15. Call no man unhappy until he is married.
- 16. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their te ...
- 17. Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.
- 18. Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
- 19. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- 20. Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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