Quotes By Socrates

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

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.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

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

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.