Socrates Quotes

The warm love has the coldest end.

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

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

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

Fear of women love more than hate the man.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

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

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.