653 Quotes by Socrates

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.

Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

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

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.