I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SOCRATESI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SOCRATESThe greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESThe 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.
SOCRATESNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
SOCRATESThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATESThe unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATESMy plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESThe 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.
SOCRATESNobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
SOCRATESI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
SOCRATESHe who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
SOCRATESThe highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
SOCRATESWhen the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
SOCRATESAs to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SOCRATESNow 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.
SOCRATES