Socrates Quotes

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

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

The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.

If 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.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

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.

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

Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.