Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit. Socrates More Quotes by Socrates More Quotes From Socrates The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not. Socrates coldmaywind 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 parentlawpeople 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 yieldapologymen The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be. Socrates greatnessintegrityreality Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. Socrates speakrememberlife 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 judgmentdesireinspire All things in moderation, including moderation. Socrates includingmoderationall-things Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness. Socrates obscuritylightdarkness Happiness is unrepented pleasure. Socrates pleasurehappiness Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man. Socrates enquiryworth-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 taskshandsneeds Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. Socrates ignorantwheatproblem 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 depressioninspirationalbelieve wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state Socrates wealthblessingdoe A multitude of books distracts the mind. Socrates readingmindbook 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 inspirationwritingmean Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Socrates beautyinspirationallife Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. Socrates sisterhoodequalityphilosophical 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 talestheesecret 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 swansknowledgethinking
