653 Quotes by Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

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.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away...