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Famous Quotes By 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. 
All mens souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
An honest man is always a child.
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent." "By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
Be as you wish to seem.
Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other mens writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
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.
Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
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