Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations? Socrates More Quotes by Socrates More Quotes From Socrates What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them? Socrates parent law people I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding. Socrates yield apology men The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be. Socrates greatness integrity reality Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. Socrates speak remember life When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . . Socrates judgment desire inspire All things in moderation, including moderation. Socrates including moderation all-things Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness. Socrates obscurity light darkness Happiness is unrepented pleasure. Socrates pleasure happiness Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man. Socrates enquiry worth-living The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces. Socrates tasks hands needs Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. Socrates ignorant wheat problem If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman. Socrates depression inspirational believe wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state Socrates wealth blessing doe A multitude of books distracts the mind. Socrates reading mind book I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates inspiration writing mean Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Socrates beauty inspirational life Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. Socrates sisterhood equality philosophical Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn. Socrates tales thee secret You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve. Socrates swans knowledge thinking We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime. Socrates wisdom heart knowledge
