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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.
Socrates
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates
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.
Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates
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.
Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
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.
Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
