Quotes By Socrates

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

If you would seek health, look first to the spine.

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

We shall be better, braver, andmore active if we believe it right tolook for what we don't know.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.