653 Quotes by Socrates

ម្ដាយខ្ញុំជាឆ្មបសម្រាលកូន ​ឯខ្ញុំជាឆ្មបសម្រាយគំនិត។

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul

...[W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the approach of death and escapes unharmed and indestructible... [I]t is as certain as anything can be... that soul is immortal and imperishable, and that our souls will really exist in the next world.

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

All I know is that I do not know anything

Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.

There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world.