What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?
SocratesOne ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
SocratesHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
SocratesWhen you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.
SocratesDo you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.
Socrates