653 Quotes by Socrates

You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent

She soars on her own wings.

Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Be as you wish to seem.

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.