653 Quotes by Socrates

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

There is no illness of the body except for the mind.

If the whole world depends on today’s youth, I can’t see the world lasting another 100 years.

To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.

No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

When a woman is allowed to become a man’s equal, she becomes his superior.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.