Quotes from Socrates

Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training

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

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

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.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

Moderate exercise is indispensable; exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

Wisdom is knowing you know nothing

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.

Fear of women love more than hate the man.