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 Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service. Socrates greed desire war There is but one evil, ignorance. Socrates ignorance evil religion Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. Socrates philosophy death people I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes. Socrates care mistake people To harm another is to harm oneself Socrates oneself harm An unexamined life is a life of no account. Socrates unexamined-life philosophical life-is True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge. Socrates limits goal lying See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. Socrates philosophical nature sea To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity. Socrates doe men needs Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. Socrates reverence extensions fear I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say. Socrates talent understanding inspiration When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love. Socrates inspiration love inspire The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him. Socrates wise men death Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of. Socrates jewels names advice Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. Socrates philosophical greed war She soars on her own wings. Socrates scrapbooking wings inspirational There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate. Socrates embrace temperance differences If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself. Socrates long-ago should-have men Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one. Socrates soul giving men Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth Socrates angry ifs philosophy
