653 Quotes by Socrates

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?

Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.