653 Quotes by Socrates

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

Once a man knows good from evil, nothing on earth can compel him to act against that knowledge.