All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates