653 Quotes by Socrates

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

Wisest is he who knows he knows not.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house