It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
SOCRATESIf all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
More Socrates Quotes
-
-
The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATES -
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES -
I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
SOCRATES -
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
SOCRATES -
Through your rags I see your vanity.
SOCRATES -
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
SOCRATES -
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?
SOCRATES -
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SOCRATES -
The 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.
SOCRATES -
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
SOCRATES -
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SOCRATES -
I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
SOCRATES -
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
SOCRATES







