Quotes By Socrates

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

You don't know what you don't know.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

Contentment is natural wealth.

This is a universe that does not favor the timid.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

Let the questions be the curriculum.

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.