Socrates Quotes

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

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

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates

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