653 Quotes by Socrates

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

How many things I can do without!

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death.

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

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