“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”Socrates1
“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.”Socrates1
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”Socrates1
“I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort. From poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no one was more con...”Socrates0
“هرچه جستجو کردم کسی را نیافتم که به نادانی خویش اعتراف کند. حال که من میدانم خود از همه نادان ترم، داناترین مردمانم.”Socrates0
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”Socrates0
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”Socrates0
“...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers; because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the heavens... and everything below the earth... must be an atheist.”Socrates0
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”Socrates0
“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”Socrates0
“Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.”Socrates0
“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”Socrates0
“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.”Socrates0
“If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.”Socrates0
“Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.”Socrates0
“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.”Socrates0
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter b...”Socrates0
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.”Socrates0
“Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and...”Socrates0
“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.”Socrates0
“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that th...”Socrates0
“God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods...”Socrates0
“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”Socrates0
“Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”Socrates0
“If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.”Socrates0
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”Socrates0
“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.”Socrates0
“I went to interview a man with a high reputation for wisdom, because I felt that here if anywhere I should succeed in disproving the oracle and pointing out to my divine authority 'You said that I was the wisest of men, but here is a man who is wiser than I am.' Well, I gave a thorough examination t...”Socrates0
“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.”Socrates0
“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.”Socrates0
“A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.”Socrates0
“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”Socrates0
“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”Socrates0