Socrates

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”

— Socrates

“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.”

— Socrates

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

— Socrates

“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”

— Socrates

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”

— Socrates

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”

— 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

“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.”

— Socrates

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”

— 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

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

— Socrates

“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.”

— Socrates

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

— 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

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”

— Socrates

“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”

— Socrates

“All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”

— Socrates

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”

— Socrates