SocratesBe true to thine own self.372Truth
SocratesI shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.361Love
SocratesIf 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.362Humanity
SocratesIn every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.373Life
SocratesAs to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent373Reflection
SocratesWhat a lot of things there are a man can do without.352Truth
SocratesThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. ✨ Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives. Book … ▶363Reading
SocratesBad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. ✨ Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotl… ▶374PhilosophyThought
SocratesWhen our feet hurt, we hurt all over.364Philosophy
SocratesIf thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.353Politics
SocratesI 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.331Death
SocratesI have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.343Life
SocratesThe rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live. ✨ Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers321Life
SocratesThe partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.321Humanity
SocratesNothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.344Politics
SocratesWhoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.355Politics
SocratesThe really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.311Life
SocratesTo know, is to know that you know nothing.355Life
SocratesHow many things I can do without! ✨ Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers377Thought
SocratesWho knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.377DeathTruth
SocratesAnd I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is… ▶322ReadingTruth
SocratesAre you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best pos… ▶378PhilosophyPoliticsThought
SocratesDo not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.356Truth
SocratesIf you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.356ThoughtTruth
SocratesDo not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.301Life
SocratesWhat most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.323Humanity
SocratesI prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.367Death
SocratesThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.356Thought
SocratesAre you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?345PhilosophyTruth
SocratesSlanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.334Sadness
