Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior.
- 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.
- Socrates

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth.
- Socrates

I pray thee, O God that I may be beautiful within.
- Socrates

A husband is what’s left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Socrates

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
- Socrates

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
- Socrates

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

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
- Socrates

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
- Socrates

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
- Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
- Socrates

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

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

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
- Socrates

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth– that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Socrates

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
- Socrates

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

He is the richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
- Socrates

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
- Socrates

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
- Socrates

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

One thing only I know, and that 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

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
- Socrates

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Socrates

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
- Socrates