Enjoy yourself — it’s later than you think.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of...

Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once...

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

All I know is that I do not know anything

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won’t be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing....

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.

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. Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

An honest man is always a child.

I shall never act differently, even if I have to die for it many times

What a lot of things there are a man can do without

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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...

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

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.

Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the...

Man’s life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Nuestra juventud de ahora ama el lujo. Tiene malos modales, desprecia la autoridad; le falta el respeto a susmayores y le encanta charlar en lugar de trabajar; ya no se levanta cuando un adulto entra...

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel

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?

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not...

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.