653 Quotes by Socrates

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new

My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.

Contentment is the soil in which true joy grows.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become very happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher, and that is good to any man.

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.

Self-awareness is a way of healing from unconscious conflict since it offers an opportunity for the individual to analyze the nature of his or her interpersonal relationships and with the self.