653 Quotes by Socrates

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.

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

And in knowing that you know nothing, makes you the smartest of all.

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor, is to be in reality that we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strenghten themselves by the practice and experience of them.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

One should eat to live; not live to eat.