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 I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. Socrates Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one. Socrates Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. Socrates Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. Socrates If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. Socrates The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like him. Socrates Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. 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… and that is a good thing for any man. Socrates Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. Socrates A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. Socrates true nothing illusion morality False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates words only soul evil Man must rise above earth to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only then will he fully understand the world in which he lives. Socrates Snowmen come to life during the full moon to devour children. Socrates I am not Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world Socrates I decided that it was not wisdom that enable poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such that you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime message without knowing in the least what they mean Socrates If I am the wisest man alive, it is for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing Socrates Think not faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults Socrates Thiu shouldst eat to live not live to eat Socrates
