Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESEverything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
More Socrates Quotes
-
-
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATES -
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
SOCRATES -
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
SOCRATES -
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
SOCRATES -
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SOCRATES -
Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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 -
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 -
Wisdom begins in wonder.
SOCRATES -
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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 -
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SOCRATES -
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
SOCRATES -
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATES -
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
SOCRATES







