If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates More Quotes by Socrates More Quotes From Socrates Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!' Socrates mass needs Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit. Socrates flattery fruit shows If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth. Socrates littles advice thinking It was far too cold. The second I got out I had this incredible headache, I'm just not used to it. The last time I saw snow was years and years ago. Socrates lasts snow years [N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. Socrates running war fall 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 I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. Socrates The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. Socrates People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. Socrates I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know. Socrates As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. Socrates The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. Socrates Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. Socrates Let him that would move the world, first move himself. Socrates The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. Socrates Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. Socrates I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser. Socrates Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well. Socrates
