Quotes by : Socrates

...[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated with....

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people....

God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy....

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what....

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither....