653 Quotes by Socrates

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

As for me, all I know is I know nothing.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.