Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
More Socrates Quotes
-
-
Through your rags I see your vanity.
SOCRATES -
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
SOCRATES -
The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
SOCRATES -
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
SOCRATES -
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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 -
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES -
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATES -
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
SOCRATES -
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
SOCRATES -
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
SOCRATES -
A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
SOCRATES -
Understanding a question is half an answer.
SOCRATES -
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
SOCRATES