Quotes by Socrates

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

"Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds."

"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."

"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."

"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."

"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

"I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether."

"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."

"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."

"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."

"Nothing is to be preferred before justice."

"See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all."

"The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods."

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance."

"What a lot of things there are a man can do without."

"What you cannot enforce, do not command."

"Wisdom begins in wonder."