“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
Good
“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
IntelligenceAll Quotes by Socrates
“Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
Art“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
Life“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
Great“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.”
Poetry“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.”
Death“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.”
Good“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”
Good“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.”
God“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”
Best“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Life“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”
Marriage“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.”
Fear“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”
Beauty“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.”
Good“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”
Courage“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
Wisdom“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
Men“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
Nature“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Wisdom